[OHM] Wikimaps

[Susanna Ånäs]

Hi Everyone!

My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have a
cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their
historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the
Wikimaps environment.
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english

Wikimaps was introduced as a concept by Maarten Dammers
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps
. The idea is to combine environments in Wikimedia to form a maps
environment for scanned (historical) maps. I introduced the idea at
GLAM-Wiki in London and I have my presentation slides on Sideshare at
http://www.slideshare.net/susannaanas/glam-wiki-wikimaps
.

A test environment is planned to be put up for testing for the Amsterdam
Hackathon http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013, more info
to follow. We'll put up a Wikimaps page in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
 and gather material there (Feel free to start, I have not yet had the time
:)

Join the discussion about the project on maps-l at lists.wikimedia.org list!

Nice to know all of you!

Best regards,
Susanna Ånäs
User:Susannaanas
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