[Wikipedia-l] Map drawing software online

Thu Jan 20 10:21:24 UTC 2005

I have set up an early testing version of my map drawing software. It 
can be found at

    http://magnusmanske.de/wikimaps

Note: You'll see SVGs directly. So, you'll need a browser that natively 
supports SVG (Konqueror, some Mozilla builds) or a plugin.

The site is basically a 1.4 MediaWiki with an extension called "geomap". 
You can see the invokation in the source of the main page.

The actual map rendering extension is running on its own, using the 
MediaWiki database as data source. It outputs SVG, which is embedded as 
an object in the actual wiki page output.

I will add my demo data of the rest of Germany tonight, so there's more 
to see than Bavaria...

Please note that the SVG is actually generated in *real-time*, on *each 
view*. Of course, in its final form, it would cache the SVG, and also 
offer rendered PNGs. I'm not quite there yet, as ImageMagick tends to 
die on SVG-to-PNG conversion :-(

Please visit the demo site, have a look, tweak some stuff (add a city, 
resize Bavaria;-) and tell me if (and how) we should make this a "real" 
Wikimedia project.

Magnus