Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, "Derk-Jan Hartman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> > 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 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 the existing use cases and tried to imagine what > > such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a > > specific use case. > > > > The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a > > Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can > > be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the > > inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template. > > > > Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may > > want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. > > I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)! > > > > I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In > > particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my > > usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to > > use it". > > > > Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a > > maps extension up on a wikimedia box! > > Jon > > > > [1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
