Pine, you are right. That list is not very useful, and instead should look something like this:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Salzburg#Get_around The bad news is that the tile service it uses is hosted on labs, which means it cannot scale to the regular wikipedia-usage levels. Plus there might be a potential policy problem there - default lab-content loading on every page visit without user's consent. The good news is that we are very close to launching a full-blown WMF production-hosted tile service, based on the wonderful data from OSM. See general info and some ideas people have proposed - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps (feel free to add more) On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I just now realized how powerful these tools are when I started clicking > > around. > > > > > > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=File%3AWhite-cheeked_Starling_perching_on_a_rock.jpg¶ms=34.610576_N_135.540542_E_globe:Earth_class:object_&language=en > > > > Is there any chance of integrating some of these tools more directly onto > > Wikipedia pages, and into mobile web/mobile apps? > > > > There is an ongoing project > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1127/> to integrate > maps > into MediaWiki; that's probably the best place to catalog the use cases of > Geohack and decide which can and need to be supported by the new tools. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
