Jess Mahler
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I've been looking at assorted ways how to (a) replace my German Folklore Map with something #OpenStreetMap -based (b) making it filterable based on narrative elements (such as "dragon", "treasure", and so forth), and (c) integrating it into my new #Mediawiki wiki.

Based on my investigations so far, I think my best bet is to put all the map information into a #GeoJSON files, and add the element I want to filter by as Properties of the elements.

The trick seems to be which Mediawiki extensions - Map, Kartogtapher and so forth - allow me to filter these Properties so that I can create a custom map that (for example) only displays all markers tagged with "dragon" without having to create a custom GeoJSON file for each variant map.

Can anyone help me out?

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

I've been looking at assorted ways how to (a) replace my German Folklore Map with something #OpenStreetMap -based (b) making it filterable based on narrative elements (such as "dragon", "treasure", and so forth), and (c) integrating it into my new #Mediawiki wiki.

Based on my investigations so far, I think my best bet is to put all the map information into a #GeoJSON files, and add the element I want to filter by as Properties of the elements.

The trick seems to be which Mediawiki extensions - Map, Kartogtapher and so forth - allow me to filter these Properties so that I can create a custom map that (for example) only displays all markers tagged with "dragon" without having to create a custom GeoJSON file for each variant map.

Can anyone help me out?

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

Anke
Anke boosted

I am still planning a replacement for my Google MyMaps map of German folk tales, one based on #OpenStreetMap .

Reuirements include:

- I should not be required to host an entire map server.
- I should be able to integrate the maps into #MediaWiki wiki pages via plugins.

Last time I asked this question, I got a couple of good suggestions such as Umap and Leaflet that might fit the bill. However, since then I thought of a further requirement that would be really useful for me:

Filterable tags for markers.

Let me explain: I want to put a bunch of markers on the map, and each refers to a folk tale. And then I want to tag some of them with "dragon", "witch", "treasure" and so forth - and then people should be able to filter them by these tags, so that only those tales that feature "dragons" or whatever on the map.

On the other hand, maybe people want to filter the tales by the book in which they first appeared, such as "Deutsche Sagen" by the Brothers Grimm. However, this means that those tags cannot be mutually exclusive - a tale might either feature a dragon or be from "Deutsche Sagen", it might be both, or neither.

If there is truly no other way of doing this, I might have to do these "filters" as separate maps instead. But I really don't want to do this the hard way unless I absolutely have to. So, can anyone help?

#map #maps #cartography
https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

I am still planning a replacement for my Google MyMaps map of German folk tales, one based on #OpenStreetMap .

Reuirements include:

- I should not be required to host an entire map server.
- I should be able to integrate the maps into #MediaWiki wiki pages via plugins.

Last time I asked this question, I got a couple of good suggestions such as Umap and Leaflet that might fit the bill. However, since then I thought of a further requirement that would be really useful for me:

Filterable tags for markers.

Let me explain: I want to put a bunch of markers on the map, and each refers to a folk tale. And then I want to tag some of them with "dragon", "witch", "treasure" and so forth - and then people should be able to filter them by these tags, so that only those tales that feature "dragons" or whatever on the map.

On the other hand, maybe people want to filter the tales by the book in which they first appeared, such as "Deutsche Sagen" by the Brothers Grimm. However, this means that those tags cannot be mutually exclusive - a tale might either feature a dragon or be from "Deutsche Sagen", it might be both, or neither.

If there is truly no other way of doing this, I might have to do these "filters" as separate maps instead. But I really don't want to do this the hard way unless I absolutely have to. So, can anyone help?

#map #maps #cartography
https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

@strypey lamp is a bit of cheat as it bundles lots of things together 😄 but yeah, despite at least a decade of hyperventilation and shinny new things, the LAMP stack still sets the benchmark for how to change the world. Where to even start: #wordpress, #nextcloud, #mediawiki, #moodle etc. And php, much maligned early on still goes strong in projects like #laravel and friends.