We've begun some work on the long neglected map plugin. Here we consider how maps might interact with the rest of the lineup, neighborhood and federation.
# Uses
We have some strong use-case for maps in wiki. In the short term mapping of the contributions, events and projects of OSCEDays would make a fine test case.
Projects took place in 83 cities this year, and within each location there is a need to geographically map projects, and places within the region. In turn each of these projects and places needs wiki.
# Issues
Could a video be annotated with shot locations such that a map would respond as the video plays? Could the map reposition the video? Some presentation players do this with speaker video and their slides.
The d3 visualization library has well developed mapping capability. Can we make our intermediate form compatible with these maps? Would they interact in similar ways?
# Inspiration
We note here interactive map integrations of roughly the same complexity as wiki.
Data Wrapper provides web construction of d3 maps along with other common charts. An open source library is available, but where is the data stored?
Map Me provides the background map for a story told chronologically in text and image. Map both affects and reflects the story.
Story Maps by ESRI and open sourced using sometimes Leaflet and open-source data.
# See also
This Transport creates a fedwiki ghost page from a geo-located image. It uses exiv2 on the server to extract the GPSInfo in the Exif headers of the image.
The map plug-in displays a map, with a caption. The map can be explored, scrolling and zooming, without creating an updated version. Double clicking on the map enables editing, actions being saved in the journal, when the pointer leaves the map.