Hi Paul,
uMap is very interesting indeed. It uses the same JavaScript library as the one I intend to use
for our macro: LeafletJS <https://leafletjs.com/>. Technically, we'd have several tile
providers for the OpenStreetMap database such as the ones listed at
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers>: openstreetmap, openstreetmapfr,
openseamap etc. and the ones provided by Mapbox. Note that uMap provides a Django layer for
creating collaborative maps: <https://github.com/umap-project/django-leaflet-storage>. We
could think of an XWiki layer along the same lines...
Cheers
Stéphane
Paul Libbrecht:
Stéphane,
One of the very interesting derivative of OpenStreetMap is umap
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr
That’d be yet another provider, right?
paul
On 26 Jun 2018, at 20:44, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi Stephane,
On 26 Jun 2018, at 20:37, Stéphane Laurière <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
We have a MapMacro already [1], for displaying Google Maps. I'd like to create
a distinct one for creating maps based on OpenStreetMap. Another option would
be to enhance the existing MapMacro for supporting the display of OSM maps in
addition, but this would make the code more complex, and in general an
administrator willing to use maps in his wiki is likely to opt for one map
type, probably not both, what do you think?
Since this is not a large “component”, I think my preferences goes to a single
{{map}} macro, with a “provider” parameter (provider=“google”, “openstreetmap”,
“apple”, etc) and possibly aliases such as {{googlemap}} {{openstreetmap}}
which would simply be shortcuts for {{map provider=“google”}} and {{map
provider=“openstreetmap”}}.
I think it would make it simpler from a user POV. I’d prefer to have one
recommended map macro that we try to support instead of a myriad of smaller map
macros that would not be recommended and at various levels of support.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
If you agree, the proposed repo name and JIRA would be:
- Repo: macro-openstreetmap
- JIRA project: OSM
[1] https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Map%20Macro
Thank you,
Stéphane
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