During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a
generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps
like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we
standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share
data better.
We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what
such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a
specific use case.
The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a
Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can
be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the
inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may
want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation.
I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In
particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my
usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to
use it".
Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a
maps extension up on a wikimedia box!
Jon
[1]
https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps