2012/8/25 Tomasz W. Kozłowski <[email protected]>: > Hello all, > it has come to my attention (although I cannot find a mailing list > thread about it /yet/) that it was suggested that we should have a > Google Maps plugin for Wordpress displaying maps for a certain region > (a country/province/county/even municipality), with data being loaded > from our erfgoed database. > > This being said, I have to admit that I am no good programmer, so I'd > like to point you to an existing example of such a solution, which was > developed last year by Nuno Tavares for use in the 2011 WLM in > Portugal -- see <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.pt/monumentos.php>. > From the source code I can see that the maps are being loaded in a > frame (<iframe />) with the help of a PHP script; but taking all the > technical details aside, this is a great tool with a wonderful > potential to be used on the national sites of the participating > countries. > > So, my question here is: have you heard of such a plugin (it's always > safe to ask, I presume :-)? If it doesn't exist yet, is there a > volunteer here who might be willing to spend some time developing it? > (I have no idea how hard it might be to create it.) What do you think > about such a tool -- would you, as a national WLM organiser, use it on > your website? Please let me know! >
Well if we generate too much trafic to the google maps they can block us anyway: https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#usagelimits or we should apply for google earth grant for non-profits: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/grants/software/index.html -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
