"Lars Aronsson" <lars(a)aronsson.se>
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Heinz-Josef Lücking wrote:
Have also a look on
http://www.giswiki.de/index.php/QuickWMS-Extension. It's an
extension for mediawiki that integrates web map services
That sounds good, but who runs the WMS server and who
owns the
data? Can the sources handle (1) Wikimedia's strict freedom
requirement and (2) the Slashdot effect on their servers?
There must be a seperation between WMS servers and geodata
The Demis-maps e.g. are as free as the underlying geodata.
The demis-WMS server on the other side is not free software.
But the data could also be provided by a free WMS-Server. e.g. UMN-Mapserver
That server should be run, where the Wikipedias are running
But the biggest problem are neither free WMS-Servers or free geodata.
The problem is to get people doing the job
There are many such ideas in the [[category:Wikimaps]]
on meta.
But we have to make a difference between futuristic ideas and
things that work here and now. For example, today I inserted maps
in the Russian Wikipedia's article on lake Onega and in the Danish
Wikipedia's article on island Lolland. These languages have
30,000 articles each, and still they don't have maps for some of
the most central parts of their own countries. I look forward to
your SVG/JAVAX/WMS real time updated maps in 2007, with names in
the right language fetched from Ultimate Wiktionary. But right
now this project needs some simple free maps to fill in the most
embarrasing blanks. Within one year, Danish and Russian should
have 100,000 articles (assuming an annual growth factor of 3).
Many of these will be written by volunteers who get inspiration
from the beautiful maps.
Internationalisatzion of names can easy be done by creating map-texts (in
their own language) from a database.
This allready a work in progress.
*
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/gis/
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gis
*
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung
*
http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/
The beautyful maps allready existing in the wikipedias show on one side a
lot of work by the editors.
On the other side maps have often to be created again and again.
Another problem is the reduction of information of a map and that these maps
can't easly be changed by other editors cause they are raster maps.
[...]
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%…
These maps are green-and-blue without names. This is
when you
download the PNG image from Commons and start GIMP to add names
and features in your favorite language.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
Heinz (
http://www.giswiki.de )