Hi Yuri, thanks for the effort. where do the shapes come from? are they sourced from the WMF instance of OSM data?
I am wondering if adding P402 (OpenStreetMap Relation identifier) to wikidata is worth doing. I've been doing it on some italian municipalities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103049 -Simone On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote: > This week we enabled geo-shapes service (non-production only). Given > Wikidata ID(s), maps service can give you associated geoshapes (as > topojson). Moreover, you can actually give it a Wikidata SPARQL query, and > as long as each ID is unique, it will get geoshapes for each one, and keep > other values as TopoJSON properties. > > What this means is that once its in production, you can do this: > http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps > > It's a bunch of maps (using graph extension), that are dynamically generated > by a template! You just give it a country and a few more optional > parameters, and it draws the regions, and can show images from Commons if > you hover over the state capitals (black dots). > > Next step - adding some interesting data on top of those maps, like election > results or rates of air pollution. That data will hopefully be stored in a > central repository, together with non-OSM geoshapes (like historical country > outlines, bird migration paths, etc). > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > -- -S _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
