Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Gregory Maxwell schrieb: >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Great. Let us know when you've got community approval. >> Better than a simple super-majority too per the president set in the >> recent discussions related to revision flagging. > > Well, falgged revisions are pretty controverisial, I dopt map integration will > be. There's hardly a downside I can see. > > Anyway... let's wait until we at least have a *demo* that people can look at, > so > they know what they are talking about. Will be some time until we have that.
The MW extension for the inline OSM maps is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap Feel free to pop over to some of the sites already using it for examples of its current state. As a minimum for WMF deployment we want to make sure it handles multiple maps per page ;) and handles non-JavaScript visitors for a static map. Medium to longer term we'll want to be able to highlight places/countries/geographic features/whatever (very useful!) and potentially other sorts of data sets (eg a map of some historical whatsit), topographic map tiles, etc etc. Folks have been tossing around the idea of doing this for years and just never quite got round to pushing it... now it's being pushed forward and we'll be able to use a local OpenStreetMap mirror to ensure we're not breaking the external sites it relies on for source data. ;) Unlike say Google Maps, OSM is also a free content project very similar in spirit to Wikipedia, which makes us feel warm and fuzzy as well -- it's not something that can be snatched away from the community's use in the future. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
