Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
FYI, Limn is also sort of taken in the MediaWiki/WMF namespace: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Limn DJ On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org: For the short term, I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
Overall this is very exciting work with lots of potential future applications. I don't think it's resourced for success yet, but let's figure out where it should sit in our roadmap since it would address many shared needs if done right. True! It would be nice to talk about it during

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Daniel Schwen
Sorry, but Limn sounds pretty pretentious, and it is hard to pronounce. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: Overall this is very exciting work with lots of potential future applications. I don't think it's resourced for success yet, but let's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sorry, but Limn sounds pretty pretentious, and it is hard to pronounce. no problem at all, you're not hurting my feelings :) Sounds like people don't like the name, so let's drop it. The top contender right now is Visual: and I'll ping the Visual Editor folks right now to see if they mind.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For your information there are several things Wikidata can already do. - When for instance a district is associated with a shape, multiple shapes could be known and dated by Wikidata. - It could know of the existence of maps and when a map is defined in a way that allows for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-16 Thread David Cuenca
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s? I give it a +0.5 :) I also like Render but its meaning has become too attached to 3d graphics... Anyhow if we have a Visual and a VisualData namespace, they could be associated to each

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Niklas Laxström
2014-05-14 1:34 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
yup we will move it.as long as Git repositories are easier for me to setup on GitHub I will always start projects there... ;) On 15 May 2014 10:59, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-14 1:34 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org: For the short term, I think further exploration of the Map namespace is great, but I think generic visualization work could go into the Visualization namespace. My suggestion for a name for this namespace may seem a bit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread dan-nl
PictureIt: Envision: Imagine: On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s? The only downside might be a slight conflict with VisualEditor On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:20 AM, dan-nl dan.entous.wikime...@gmail.comwrote: PictureIt: Envision: Imagine: On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? On 14

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
By the way, the Vega work is deployed to this wiki: http://analytics-wiki.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#Visualization Jon/DJ/Aude, if you want I can add a more generic proxy name for that wiki and put your stuff on there too? It's in the analytics project in labs but I'm happy to give anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread dan-nl
DataDisplay: On May 15, 2014, at 22:59 , Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: By the way, the Vega work is deployed to this wiki: http://analytics-wiki.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#Visualization Jon/DJ/Aude, if you want I can add a more generic proxy name for that wiki and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Green
Folks, this looks really fantastic, way to go!! I'd really love to contribute to this, as time allows, BTW. * Data (one or more sets of data, can be geojson, topojson, tsv, csv, layers from OSM [3], OHM [4], etc.) snip / * Datasets in WikiData using an alternative data model I'm especially

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? The mild conflict VisualEditor: conflict aside, that seems reasonable. View: might also work if it's not used for something else. Either way, it's going to be a bit tricky to translate. It might be good to design

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 14/05/2014 00:34, Jon Robson a écrit : During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Jon Robson
Yes - Dan and I talked about this during the hackathon. Dan was thinking bigger and even more generic then me. The two could potentially play hand in hand - essentially the Map namespace would be used to make and curate maps and provide basic embedding and the Visualisation* namespace could be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 14/05/2014 15:16, Jon Robson a écrit : PS. Do we own wikimaps.org - I can imagine a map wiki would be extremely useful project to us. The wikimaps.org is registered to the Wikimedia foundation. It has been created back in 2004! Tip: under Linux/Mac OS you can query domain name registrars

[Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-13 Thread Jon Robson
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better. We took a look at all