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Revision as of 19:14, 24 June 2009

It would be great to improve the maps on and.

Hitchwiki maps is a custom app created by MrTweek (who's been hosting hitchwiki since we started it under that name) - unfortunately it's not integrated well with mediawiki, like e.g. on. On the other hand, the mediawiki extension used on trashwiki doesn't allow integration of all data into one big file, or on one big map.

So it would be great to find a way to have both ways, a global map for trashwiki and a more integrated way to edit hitchwiki map data. The most beneficial solution would be to build upon the MediaWiki extension (that's running on trashwiki.org).


Here are the various subtasks involved:

Integrate data from the mediawiki maps extension into one map

  • Too hard to do this on the fly for a wiki with 1000s of articles
    • Possibly through a cron job

Migrate hitchwiki maps to the mediawiki maps extension

  • Problem: datapoints are to be in several articles.
    • Is this feasible at all?