Hi All,
We're actually getting some work done on Maps v2.x right now which we hope
to "forwardport" to v3. Mostly polygon related stuff - smart labeling,
hover, additional layers, autocenter, etc.
During SMWCon, one attendee made a strong case for SMW being a great GIS
CMS/KMS. Maybe we can round-up people to sponsor extended Maps/Semantic
Maps to make this a reality.
Especially now that MySQL 5.6, MariaDB 5.5 and MongoDB 2.4 have geospatial
capabilities that should allow a lot of very interesting ask queries if the
SMW geographic coordinate type took advantage of these technologies.
http://www.slideshare.net/henrikingo/spatial-functions-in-mysql-56-mariadb-55-postgis-20-and-others
FYI, we actually contributed some patches to ExternalData to return MongoDB
GeoJSON polygons in a format that can be used with Maps (see nycpedia.com),
but it still feels like a hack and we'd love to do ask queries like, what's
inside, next, within, intersects, disjoint, crosses, contains polygon/POI
which are now possible in MySQL 5.6, MariaDB 5.5 and MongoDB 2.4.
Perhaps some additional SMW geospatial types beyond geographic coordinate?
A place type defined by a polygon? Maybe this could be the integration
point to start going towards a shared featureset with WikiData?
We even looked at Extension:GeoData which now stores coordinates and powers
Mediawiki Nearby Places, but its still storing latlongs as MySQL float
fields.
Best,
Joel
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Bernhard,
>
> I could work on Maps in my free time but am not doing so as there are
> other more interesting projects at hand. You can of course hire me to work
> on it, as is true for any MediaWiki or PHP work. Since I'd like to see my
> first extension to continue being developed, I also consider doing this
> substantially below my usual rate (depending on the exact things that need
> to be done).
>
> Of course you can hire other developers to work on it. I'd love to see
> good work happen without my involvement. Unfortunately the code quality of
> the extension is not the best, neither is the overall design, and it is
> lacking tests for the most part. Plus it is hopelessly intermingled with
> MediaWiki all over, while most of it could be independent from MW. I'm
> hoping this can improve so it becomes a well crafted, clean and throughly
> tested piece of software that can be worked on without having much
> knowledge of MediaWiki. If you hire someone to work on it, please make sure
> they don't go in the other direction.
>
>
> Cheers
>
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