Speaking of historical maps,
The Warper has two core functions:
- storing the control points
- rectifying and cache/generate tiles
Moving the control points to Commons would make the Warper obsolete,
because the map could be rectified client side(which makes sense anyway).
Both .tab and .map
Great work!
I'm happy with the new naming, Commons Datasets.
For historical maps we have been waiting to have a way to store data about
the rectification with the map image. Here it is! It brings us one notch
closer to being able to work with zoomable historical maps in Wikipedia.
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