Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-22 Thread geni
On 19 July 2015 at 17:57, Dan Garry wrote: > > Hopefully this answers your query. Let me know if you have any further > questions. > > Which non earth bodies will the Wikimedia Maps Tile Server support? Geohack supports lunar coordinates well enough: https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.ph

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-21 Thread Raymond Leonard
Nou Nouill commented: > Moreover, in plenty of language, Geohack have long lists of hundred links, > with lot of useless links, because languages communities want to describe > exhaustively web mappings service. So the presentation of Geohack is often > very weighed down. Perhaps this is a proble

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Nou Nouill wrote: > [...] > So, I want to ask if the Foundation have a plan to improve Geohack ? I have > the impression when I see https://tools.wmflabs.org that Geohack was mainly > maintain by volunteer, but for me Geohack is a core item of the Wikimedia > sphere. So I don't understand that s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Dan Garry
Hello Nouill! Thanks for reaching out! With the tools that are on Tool Labs, the responsibility for maintenance is on the person who wrote the tool and put it on Tool Labs. For that, you can look at https://tools.wmflabs.org/. In this case, you can see that the people that wrote that tool are Mag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
My understanding was that there were two new engineering positions last year that were supposed to be dedicated to geolocation and mapping improvements. I get the impression that most of the improvements in the past year have been aimed at mobile platforms. I asked about the plans for geolocation

[Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Nou Nouill
Hi ! So today Geohack don't work few hours, once gain. It has been many times that Geohack is down these last months (and years). The previous issue was linked with the Tools labs problems (but not today, Tools Labs was working). In addition to that maintenance problem, I don't see Geohack evolve