Another great thing to hack on is support for geometries at query.wikidata.org, because geometries are now exposed through the API they should also be rendered in the map view.
Concerning lists of tile-services, the iD project has a great list of tile services and most of them are open. We also created a list of historical map tile services for the OpenHistoricalMap project. I'm not sure if replicating those list somewhere else would add anything of benefit for our community. Note that using external services such as tile services from Tool Server is problematic because it can easily violate the Privacy policy[1]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/65/toolforge_provides_proxied_mirrors_of_cdnjs_and_now_fontcdn_for_your_usage_and_user-privacy/ // Albin Abbe98 2017-08-30 17:39 GMT+02:00 Susanna Ånäs <[email protected]>: > Great work, great intiative! > > I will share the info on the Wikimaps group in FB (not many are > tech-oriented). I am especially interested in gathering info on the tiles > services, I have been thinking about that myself. It has been unclear > whether they could ever be used (in Wikipedias), so it would be helpful if > you could shed light on where they could be used and what remains > restricted. > > Cheers > Susanna > > 2017-08-30 17:38 GMT+03:00 Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]> > : > >> >> I've been playing a bit with maps recently and identified a set of low >> hanging fruit, that are currently lacking, prohibitive and/or need >> improvement. These are great opportunities for those enthusiastic about >> maps. Most are rather small, but not enough of a priority for the >> foundation to work on. >> >> 1. Create a directory of tile providers services that are >> opensource/opendata etc.. >> We seem to have a lot of different tile providers and services >> integrated, but we don't really keep track of who does and uses what. There >> is a nice https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ >> that would be awesome to have as toolforge focused for wikimedia. This can >> improve our mutual knowledge of such tile providers. It took me a long time >> to get a decent understanding of all the tiles that we have/can use in the >> bazillion other tools. >> >> 2. Because http://tools.wmflabs.org/locator/coordinates.php incorporates >> google maps and was somewhat broken to begin with, I started experimenting >> with a new version: http://tools.wmflabs.org/locator/coordinates2.php >> just for fun. This tool is mostly used by the Dutch Wikimedia community to >> add coordinates to their wiki and they really want to keep their satellite >> view. It can also be used for en.wikipedia and commons. >> >> There is another tool called https://tools.wmflabs.org/locator-tool/, >> which is specific to Commons. It would be interesting to see if we can >> generalise that tool to be more wiki agnostic, using the abstractions that >> the locator tool has. >> >> 3. I'm working on running an experiment with a gadget on the mobile >> website, to see if there can be made a case for stronger mobile web >> integration with our new map service >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174538 >> >> 4: The JS modules in Kartographer need some love. More support for JS >> hooks and promises, will make them much easier to reuse them. For instance, >> it's impossible to use the map link or mapframe modules and provide slight >> enhancements or integrations, because you can't tell when they have >> finished opening etc. >> >> 5: Split off Special:NearBy of MobileFrontend and enhance it with >> maps.wikimedia.org >> >> 6: The list of sidebar services cannot be easily changed right now and is >> hardcoded in the extension. >> Moving it into a MediaWiki: json file would greatly improve this. >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152971 >> >> Ergo, many opportunities, hope this inspires people !!! >> >> DJ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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