Talk:Wikimedia Maps

Wishlist

 * Proposed Bot to add Wikipedia/Wikidata tags to OSM features.
 * Local and regional bridges between both projects in order to collaborate in activities and events.
 * Wikimedia CH plans.
 * Log in to OSM with Wikimedia credentials.
 * Clarify licensing situation of OSM data used in Wikimedia. (T105090 -- seems to be ok)
 * Open-Wikidata-map.
 * A page to jot down use cases for historical maps and geodata (Susannaanas)
 * It would be awesome if it's possible to make an interactive map with all the changes in Wikipedia. --CortexA9 (talk) 17:14, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey CortexA9! Have you seen http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en ? Trizek (WMF) (talk) 14:43, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

WM IT

 * I brought this to the attention of WM IT, which at some point will also become the Italian chapter for OSM, thanks to the efforts of User:Cortesi and others. HTH, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:38, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Controversial borders
Hi,

I noticed some controversial borders at https://maps.wikimedia.org :
 * The border between Crimea and Kherson is shown as international, which is the Russian Federation POV.
 * South Ossetia and Abkhazia are shown as countries, which is the Russian Federation POV.
 * The border of Kosovo looks like a border of an independent country (Kosovan POV), but it doesn't have a country name (weird POV ;) ).
 * As a technically opposite example, there's no border in the middle of Cyprus (Greek POV), but there is a label for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Turkish POV).
 * The border between Israel and Syria is shown according to the Israeli POV.

There are possibly more issues of this kind.

Wikipedias usually show maps of disputed territories quite well. For example, maps of Russia and Ukraine usually show Crimea in a special color - even in the Russian Wikipedia.

I understand that at the moment Wikimedia's maps service probably just takes whatever OSM provides, but ideally it should do something similar to what the Wikipedias do and be as neutral as possible.

(I tried to be as neutral as I could in this post ;) ) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * There is no neutral way to display map borders. Not making a choice is inherently taking a side --Guerillero (talk) 01:10, 18 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks ! Filed as T113008. Indeed this does not look very NPOV. The data comes directly from OSM, so we should ultimately work with the OSM community to solve this (unless it is already present in the data with some extra flags that we should look at and draw accordingly). Also, if OSM community chooses to follow a different route, we might have to introduce a separate database of such cases and allow community to edit it. Obviously I would much rather have it fixed in OSM (if it is indeed broken there).  --Yurik (talk) 01:14, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you Yurik. Sounds sensible. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:19, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * OSM usually follows an "on the ground" POV about borders. Areas are not shown in the countries they "should" be or they rightfully belong -according to any given criteria- but they show which state de facto governs the territory. It's a simple approach that fits initial OSM goal -to provide road maps to travel using a GPS- but it couldn't be the better approach for an encyclopedia.--Pere prlpz (talk) 18:48, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

How to submit patches?
It's a bit unclear from the page, but it looks like https://maps.wikimedia.org/ is run by kartotherian? I've whipped up a provisional patch for hi-dpi/retina display support but can't submit it via 'git review' as there's no .gitreview in the repo. --Brion Vibber (WMF) (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It's all in GitHub. Also, the index.html you're probably trying to edit is just an example, we're not intending it to ever be a full-featured map:) Max Semenik (talk) 20:35, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Missing fonts
It seems the map server is missing some fonts to render characters of place names in what I think is Georgia: https://maps.wikimedia.org/#9/41.8297/44.2474 —Galaktos (talk) 21:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Its a Unicode bug in Mapnik, tracked by T108846. --Yurik (talk) 21:52, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. —Galaktos (talk) 22:09, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Geopedia
(HTML 5 / mobile and desktop)

I developed a tool called Geopedia (http://www.geopedia.de), where I could add your map too. Currently I use leaflet and the DE open street map, as I use it primarly for travelling and wanted to have latin city names... I could also add your maps through a layer selection in the settings. Let me know what you think - also very open for further ideas and improvments..