Fairfaxpedia talk:Maps

Initial thoughts -- Joshdoe 08:12, 23 February 2012 (EST)
I'm a big proponent of OpenStreetMap, so I'd love to have OSM have some part in the maps we show on the wiki. I've been working on improving the road network in the county, importing parks, adding buildings. In some cases, at least initially, we can use maps from Wikimedia Commons. Eventually it would be nice to create some custom maps. One question I have is how prominent should maps be? Some place articles have very large Google Maps, which I think might be too big. Wikipedia has been working on integrating OSM. At the German Wikipedia you can click Karte in the upper right to drop down a map (e.g. here), and the English site has a similar drop down map if you click the globe in the upper right (e.g. here).

Re: Initial thoughts -- Chuckhoffmann 10:16, 23 February 2012 (EST)

 * It makes no difference to me where we source maps from, but when I tried to use OSM as the map service for the Westfield High School article it still showed the Google map. The question I have is how will adding a feature like that affect performance? I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but Fairfaxpedia is crawlingly slow for me already, and there's only 100-odd articles on it.--Chuckhoffmann 10:16, 23 February 2012 (EST)

Re: Initial thoughts -- Joshdoe 07:39, 25 February 2012 (EST)

 * I'm currently investigating how to embed a non-intrusive, but interactive map in infoboxes based on coordinates, and possibly overlaying a polygon to show the extents of the subject in the article (e.g. park/county border).