Awesome! :)

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Deb Tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been
> making, and our future goals.
>
> * Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow
> editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages.
> Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface thanks to Ed Sanders. We
> hope to add a good VE maps editor there as well. See [1]
> * Wikipedia Android app now shows all nearby articles on a map (Kudos to
> Dmitry Brant)
> * GeoHack (gps link in the upper right corner) for Russian and Italian
> Wikipedias have switched to the new map. English wiki will have it soon as
> well (Kudos to Putnik and Legoktm)
> * English & Russian WikiVoyage has switched to the new map
> * Maps database is automatically refreshed from OSM (thanks to Max Semenik
> and Alex Kosiaris)
> * We now have a map without place labels [2]
>
> [1] DEMO:  http://vem3.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [2] https://maps.wikimedia.org/?s=osm
>
>
> *== Community Projects ==*
> * Simon Legner has been actively developing article map [3] with some help
> from Tim Alder and Daniel Schwen
> * Several people are working on Wikimaps Warper [4] tool to add and
> position scanned map images.
> * Kartotherian tile server code has been improved [5] and deployed to a
> non-WMF site. This makes us very happy because it shows that our code is
> useful to others.
>
> [3]
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berlin
> [4] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/wikimaps-tools/wikimaps-warper/
> [5] https://github.com/zoondka/kartozoa
>
>
> *== Future plans / goals ==*
> This quarter, our goal is to improve the content discovery experience on
> Wikivoyage by rolling out maps to all Wikivoyages.  Specific tasks can be
> tracked in Phabricator: #maps [6], #kartographer [7]. These are some of the
> tasks we plan to do:
>
> * Deploy Kartographer extension to Wikivoyage
> * Add maps editor to Kartographer
> * Work with Operations to make maps a production-level service. This
> includes adding more caching and backend servers.
> * Offer maps as a more stable and feature rich alternative to
> geohack/wiwosm/WikiMiniAtlas
> * Implement cross-wiki shared data storage
> * Implement static service capable of generating a map image with the
> article-specific overlays
> * Allow editors to add maps directly to Wikipedia
> * Implement the most requested features from the Future Plans [8]
>
> [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
> [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans
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