Wikimedia Maps/2015-2017/Future Plans

Related Projects

 * Commons:Wikimaps project to digitize maps from GLAM, with in-depth design and use cases.

Wiki Articles (reading)

 * Show an interactive (zoomable and panable) map in an article.
 * Please, please, please do this. --Guerillero (talk) 00:29, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * THIS Aryamanarora (talk) 22:34, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * A reader wants to see a zoomable, pannable map immediately when they click geo-coordinates on an article.
 * A reader wants to visualize geospatial data (country and city outlines, river courses, habitats for animals etc.)
 * A reader can explore complex shapes (highways, geographic borders etc.) inside the infoboxes much better by using a slippymap than a static image. (need support for: kml, geoJSON, topoJSON)
 * Show Raster imagery of earth, e.g. from Natural Earth, and other planets/celestial bodies. Overlay them with useful info.
 * A user wants to see the map in a language that they can read, see OSM:Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project.

Existing Tools

 * slippymap (legacy raster mod_tile map)
 * T35980 – Wikimedia-hosted OpenStreetMap (OSM) / mapnik tileservers wanted for mobile usage.
 * WikiMiniAtlas deployed on major Wikipedias for years now, supporting over 50 languages. Click the drop-down arrow next to coordinates on any Wikipedia article.
 * OpenStreetMap embedded in MediaWiki (see de:WP:GEO/Anwendungen/OpenStreetMap/en) – used in many Wikipedias (Q11426484)
 * WIWOSM, linkage between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap – shows geometric objects from OSM for a Wikipedia article
 * OpenStreetMapFrame.js by User:Krinkle - e.g. Salzburg - click (Kaart) in the upper right corner.

Wiki Articles (editing)

 * A way to easily add a map to a Wikipedia article without leaving the Wikipedia site - e.g. a Visual Editor feature "insert map", with zooming and panning capabilities. We already have some proof of concept code so we just need some API endpoints. ESanders (WMF)
 * An editor wants to add geographic information about the location where they currently are.
 * An editor want to create a complex, individual map to show relations of objects that are mention in a article, see UMAP.

Historical

 * An article shows interactive historical maps for certain areas. The map can contain annotation layers, POIs, routes, data layers etc. to illustrate the article topic. An editor wants to create these maps. (Taking part: Susannaanas (talk))
 * A historical map file can be displayed overlaid on a slippy map in the file display (file page / media viewer). Wikimaps design doc. (Taking part: Susannaanas (talk))
 * Existing: Wikimaps & OpenHistoricalMap

WikiVoyage

 * An user of Wikivoyage want to have a strong combination of an article and a map as a travel guide.
 * User Mey2008's WikiVoyage dynamic maps, such as POI Map, Art Map, and Monument Map (RU).

Map Browser/Atlas

 * A reader wants to navigate articles with an atlas (instead of typing a page name or URL, zoom and pan a map, and click pins)

Commons

 * An editor wants to add coordinate information to a photo on Commons or wants to easily justify it.
 * A reader wants to browse Wikimedia Commons images on a map.
 * A reader/Commons user/editor wants to find scanned maps by selecting the area on a slippy map. Wikimaps design doc. (Taking part: Susannaanas (talk))

Wikidata

 * An editor wants to specify a map on Wikidata so it can be reused on any of the wikiarticles associated with that Wikidata item. One Wikidata item may have multiple associated maps - location map, current borders, historic borders (start date =?), etc. each with a specification stored on Wikidata. These specifications specify what layers are to be used, from where (OSM or OHM or other) but probably don't include the map data.
 * A Wikidata data provider or editor wants to describe changing names and geographic information (eg borders) for places. The item can also refer to an external service for the geometry or it can be synchronized with an external service. OpenHistoricalMap would be ideal for historical data, OpenStreetMap for current geodata, but thematic geographic data does not have a candidate for storage.
 * The historical and alternative place names and variants can be used in many location-aware activities, such as using them to search for a place on an old map or the location mentioned in a text.
 * The geographic data can be animated in a map illustrating an article (eg. the changing borders of Europe)
 * Place names can also be matched with external authority databases.

Mobile App

 * User is able to see the map of the nearby points of interests from the mobile app
 * User is able to explore points of interest next to the current article
 * User is able to view articles similar to the current one on the map (based on Wikidata class)
 * Mobile map is a complete replacement for the wikivoyage interface - layers for each type of element (eat, museum, sleep etc.) shown on the map with linking to element data on wikidata, localised by wikidata in your language. You will be able to access and edit wikivoyage info without ever going to the wikivoyage wikis.

Media Viewer

 * Maps should be viewed in the Media Viewer: viewed, zoomed and perhaps annotated. There should be links to maps tools from the Media Viewer.