My understanding was that there were two new engineering positions last year that were supposed to be dedicated to geolocation and mapping improvements. I get the impression that most of the improvements in the past year have been aimed at mobile platforms. I asked about the plans for geolocation and mapping on the Annual Plan talk page but have yet to see a response. I too am interested in the general subject of geolocation.
Pine On Jul 19, 2015 5:39 AM, "Nou Nouill" <nounou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi ! > > So today Geohack don't work few hours, once gain. It has been many times > that Geohack is down these last months (and years). The previous issue was > linked with the Tools labs problems (but not today, Tools Labs was > working). > > In addition to that maintenance problem, I don't see Geohack evolve those > last years. The tool have a old design. It has different configurations for > each language, so when a user do translation, he has to adapt to each > configuration. > Moreover, in plenty of language, Geohack have long lists of hundred links, > with lot of useless links, because languages communities want to describe > exhaustively web mappings service. So the presentation of Geohack is often > very weighed down. > > For me, Geohack is the more useful tools on Tools Labs with a massive > visibility for the viewers (each coordinate on WM use Geohack and there are > several hundred thousands coordinates). Geohack is also use by contributors > (when I translate a article with a coordinate, It's usually more practice > to check coordinate in Geohack). > > So, I want to ask if the Foundation have a plan to improve Geohack ? I have > the impression when I see https://tools.wmflabs.org that Geohack was > mainly > maintain by volunteer, but for me Geohack is a core item of the Wikimedia > sphere. So I don't understand that situation since few years. I hope it's > the place to do this comment. > > Nouill. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
