User:Yug/Maps: wikipedia dynamic atlas

The basic idea we carry is to build an advanced online mapping tool for free encyclopedism. This tool should provide various available free layers as background, on which wikipedians may add and edit semantic layers (shapes, icons, legend, scales) to provide high quality and graphically consistent encyclopedic maps to embed within wikipedia's articles. Being centralized, these layers and icons may be easily update or stylized as needed. Updates of icons and background layers such as boundaries will immediately appear on all maps, saving endless hours. The major challenges we are facing being :
 * 1) Teaming up people: connecting key experts together, work efficiently, keep working on the long term despite technical and human difficulties, need big heart !
 * 2) Creating technologies: creating these very complex tools, define the needs, defines suitable forms to fill, create these systems, fix bugs.
 * 3) Combining technologies: making them compatible with previous wikipedia usages, allow upload of new maps, find ways to upload old maps,
 * 4) Move on !: Just do it, one small action after an other.

Starting tool and team: <!-- For now, your SVGsimple output become 'just a graphic', it lost its the GIS property. But it should be possible to embed within your SVGsimple output some georefenced numbers/informations (which ones?) which will allow to later reimport back your SVGsimple output to a georefenced system, either QGis, Sharemap.org, or Wikipedia georeferenced images systems. These last places would need a process -human or script- to 'load' your georeferenced SVG but It will be possible.
 * 1) Yug  (talk)  : coordinator, QGis, GIS map making, wiki mapmaker, map conventions
 * 2) STyx : georeferencing an image, mapaker, map conventions
 * 3) Richard : programmer, QGis SVGsimple plugin, SVG output.
 * 4) ??? : Sharemap.org webmaster, apps editor.
 * 5) Otourly : wikimedia lobbying
 * 6) User:Pratyeka
 * Wikipedia : users able to make the gereferenced images/maps => Make SVGsimple output Wikipedia compatible.
 * Sharemap.org : a maps.google.com-like website (!) wikipedia friendly => Make SVGsimple output Sharemap.org compatible.

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