Thank you Yuri for this update --Tom
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Deborah Tankersley <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome! :) > > -- > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
