Roman Maurer schrieb: > Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: >> If anybody's got any particularly interesting issues, examples, problems, >> or idea prototypes relating to usage of SVG on Wikipedia and other >> Wikimedia sites, I'd love to see how much I can pack in. :) > > I don't know if this is possible, but one feature I'd particularly like to > see in Wikipedia is parametrized SVG rendering. For example, when > illustrating location of each one of the 210 Slovenian municipalities, it > would be cool if (a) you could only have one file with map template, and (b) > then specify > "[[Image:Obcine_Slovenija_2006.svg|mark_tag="Trbovlje"|color=red]]" or > something like that to get this result: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obcine_Slovenija_2006_Trbovlje.svg > > In a present situation, I have to slightly modify the master SVG file and > upload 210 two-megabyte files, which is not amusing. Every few years > municipality borders get changed, so we have to upload 210+ two-megabyte > files yet again. > > Is this possible at all?
While I agree that parametrized rendering would be cool, especially for localization, I believe that maps will be a non-issue soon. Integration of automatically generated maps from OpenStreetMap is being worked on. Hopefully, we will soon have google-style interactive maps in wikipedia. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
