Commons:Wikimaps/Development

Resources

• RfC draft for the old maps working process
• Wireframes
• Wikimaps Trello collaborative planning
• Future Wikimaps Hangouts and documentation of past events

2014: Design & Development

These are the activities outlined for the project for the year 2014, with people who are working on the topics. Please add your name if you wish to be participating.

The Wikimaps environment

Overall UX development to combine a maps search, the Wikimaps Warper, the iD editor for the OpenHistoricalMap project with connection back to Wikimedia.

• The wireframes
• Currently involved: User:Susannaanas

Wikimaps Warper: Integrating the tool into OSM iD, access through OAuth, reading from different sources, saving data into Wikimedia projects and OHM.

• Labs instance: warper.wmflabs.org (operating on the maps-warper2 instance)
• Codebase: Mapwarper on Wikimaps Repository on Github
• Currently involved: User:Chippyy

Maps search: Finding maps in Wikimedia Commons. Old maps only or all data and layers? Interface design & front-end development.

Imagining further: Finding out ways to use maps in and outside Wikimedia.

• Collecting maps use cases: Use cases page
• A forthcoming survey
• Technological ideas in the Wikimaps Trello Board

Wikimedia Commons

Template:Map: Work in defining the properties to be used, inclusion in GLAM Toolset, participating in how to include it in the Upload Wizard with the new revisions, using the template with GWToolset, roadmap for transition into Wikidata, discussion with GLAMs

• Resources: Template:Map, Template:Map/Proposal, User:André_Costa_(WMSE)/Template:Map, the properties to be used
• Related bugs: bugzilla:64288
• Currently involved: User:André Costa (WMSE), User:Susannaanas

Wikimaps Gadget: A tool to mark an image as a map in Wikimedia Commons. Providing a link to the Warper.

• Currently involved: User:André Costa (WMSE)

Creating a map locator map for the file page.

• Plan for a map locator map
• Codebase for WikiMaps / Jon Robson
• Demo instance
• Map overlay demo using Leaflet by Zache

Further

OpenHistoricalMap: Changes to iD and Mapnik to allow the display of temporal change, research of connecting OHM data with Wikidata, maintenance of the platform

• Codebase:
• Currently involved: User:Chippyy, Robert Warren, Jaime Lyn Schatz, User:Abbe98

The Wikimaps Nordic project: providing content and use cases, researching needs.

• See the Wikimaps Nordic subpage
• Currently involved: User:Susannaanas, User:André Costa (WMSE), User:Ainali...

Propose topics

You can add topics, and through community discussion we can fit a task into the timeline, connect people, find resources, fit in the big picture. Keep it short, link to another page if it needs a lot of explanation.

Timeline and participation

This is the VERY first draft for the working packages in 2014. The Wikimaps Nordic project can support 5 work phases of approximately one month's duration each during the year.

WP	Task	Timeline	People
WP1	Wikimaps Warper: OAuth, OHM integration, code refactoring. OHM: Basic setup	2014	User:Chippyy
WP2	Warper & iD & Search UX, design task	2014	User:Susannaanas
WP3	Warper upgrade, development	2014	User:Chippyy
WP4	UI development	2014	User:Jeph_Paul
WP5	GLAM-Wiki Toolset Integration + other housekeeping	2014	User:Artturimatias
FOSS OPW	OHM: Time slider for the iD and OHM website	Example	Jaime Lyn Schatz, Robert Warren
Nordic SE	Template:Map	Ongoing	User:André Costa (WMSE)
Nordic SE	Wikimaps Gadget	Ongoing	User:André Costa (WMSE)
Nordic EE	Nordic map project: Tartu	Ongoing	WMEE
Nordic FI	Aerial images tools study	2014	WMFI, City of Helsinki, Finnish Land Survey
Nordic FI	Wiki Loves Maps & #Hack4FI	February–March 2015	WMFI, City of Helsinki, AvoinGLAM.fi
Nordic SE	Nordic map project: Umeå	December	WMSE

Work packages, plans and follow-up

Work package 1

Work plan for the first Wikimaps development phase (1 / 5)

1. OAuth commons (and also OSM / OHM) OAuth Integration
   • enables the login of a commons user instead of having to create a separate user
   • will assist in the changing pages via the API later on
   • 2 to 4 days
2. OHM integration
   • make easier to digitize from the maps
   • either install iD to be able to digitize the basemap provided
   • craft links so that a warped map can be loaded directly into OHM
   • see best practices from other sites (mapbox for instance)
   • 2 to 3 days
3. Upgrade code base to Rails 4
   • make easier to develop and deploy
   • makes stronger and safer
   • essential need to be done
   • better than re-writing in another language
   • create Vagrant file for other developers to get going quickly.
   • 1 to 1 1/2 week
4. OpenHistoricalMap Support
   • get back up
   • maintenance and general assistance
   • addition of Wikimaps project text to supporters / partners page
   • around 1 week spread over
5. Remove digitizer from codebase into standalone project
   • removes cruft from codebase
   • OHM functionality is replacing the need to have embedded digitizer
   • 2 days

The following task can be carried out to the extent the allotted time allows.

1. Leaflet integration
   • remove old openlayers code
   • replace with better Leaflet code
   • lighter - better mobile support
   • easier to develop upon
   • large task - most code would probably be changed when new interface is developed.
   • around 2 weeks.