Great work! On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:13 AM Yuri Astrakhan <yastrak...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues: > * Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage > * Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise > * Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Kartographer > > Last week we enabled Kartographer extension for Wikivoyage sites, allowing > users to add maps to wiki pages without any additional wmflabs and > JavaScript tricks. Now you can simply add a <mapframe> or <maplink> to a > wiki page, or even use the Visual Editor to insert a map. Additionally, you > can: > > * add markers and polygons visually > * edit geojson and see how it changes the map on each keystroke > * add auto-numbered markers (either numbers or letters), and have multiple > counters > * have multiple "groups" of markers/polygons and showing them on the same > map or on separate maps (e.g. all food and all drink maps and one combined > map) > * markers can be of any color, 3 sizes, and contain many different icons > * markers and polygons can be clicked and will show popups with wiki text > and images > * very fast full screen popup map > > Feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps > Bugs & TODOs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/ > All maps-related tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/ > > == What's next? == > There will be plenty of cleanup and polishing work to make Kartographer > work seamlessly. We will need to address the missing functionality reported > to us by the community, and help migrate existing wmflabs-based maps to the > new platform. Lastly, VE editing will need some more work to become > indispensable. > > Yet, our site is still set on the bigger target - maps for all of > Wikipedia. For that we are waiting for more hardware, plus we will need to > improve our static maps service to be able to handle wiki-load. > > Hardware task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125126 > > > Thank you Max Semenik, Ed Sanders, Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black, Chris > Koerner, Chris Steipp, Tomasz Finc, and Wes Moran for making this possible. > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > map...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>