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Feature
VMAP0 layer		 Legend
Seaice
seaicea		 Image:Wma_legend_shelfice.png shelf ice
Grassland
grassa		 Image:Wma_legend_grass.png grassland
Trees
treesa		 Image:Wma_legend_trees.png Trees
Waterbodies
inwatera		 Image:Wma_legend_lake.png lakes and wide streams
Ice
landicea		 Image:Wma_legend_landice.png landice
Cities
builtupa		 Image:Wma_legend_urban.png all settlements
Rivers
watrcrsl		 Image:Wma_legend_river.png river

Image:Wma_legend_iriver.png intermittent river
Borders
polbndl		 Image:Wma_legend_countryborder.png country border

Image:Wma_legend_regionalborder.png regional border
Canals
aquecanl		 Image:Wma_legend_canal.png canal
Railroad
railrdl		 Image:Wma_legend_rail.png railtrack
Roads
roadl		 Image:Wma_legend_median.png with median

Image:Wma_legend_nomedian.png without median
Mapsymbols
Image:wma_label_corner_ul.png Article
Image:wma_label_summit.png Mountain
Image:wma_label_dot_3.png Village < 10000 inhabitants
Image:wma_label_dot_5.png Town < 100.000 inhabitants
Image:wma_label_dot_7.png City < 500.000 inhabitants
Image:wma_label_dot_9.png City < 1.000.000 inhabitants
Image:wma_label_dot_11.png City > 1.000.000 inhabitants

WikiMiniAtlas is Javascript plugin to display a draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles. The map contains links to all other geocoded articles in Wikipedia and can be magnified down to approximate 100m resolution worldwide. While it looks similar to GoogleMaps it is our own software and free data.

Go to Washington Monument. Check out the -icon in the top right corner. Click it and drag the map around. Use the +/- buttons to zoom in and out, use the downward arrow to open the config page.

Map data courtesy of GSHHS Coastline Data (public domain), VMAP0 rendered using the Mapnik toolkit, additional data courtesy of the US National Park Service, Landsat7 data courtesy of NASA.

Contents

Data Sources

  • The textual labels on the map are generated from a database by de:User:Kolossos filled with data from de:User:Stefan Kühn combining coordinate data from several different language versions.
  • Thumbnails from commons are extracted perioidically from database dumps
  • The default base map is generated from VMAP0 rendered using the Mapnik toolkit. The folowing VMAP0 layers are plotted
  • As a big fan of the NPS I also added all US National Parks and Monuments to the VMAP0 base map (thanks for the freely available Geodata!)
  • The reduced bandwith map (coastline) is based on GSHHS Coastline Data (public domain)
  • The physical shaded relief is created by Tom Patterson of the US National Park Service mainly based on Landsat and SRTM30 data. It is in the public domain, downloadable here. To cut the two hemisphere images up into tiles a custom ImageMagick script was used.
  • The Landsat7, daily aqua, and daily terra satellite modes use data by the National Air and Space Administration

Configuration

Put this anywhere in your monobook.js file:

var wma_settings =
{
 height : 400,
 width : 700
}

to set the size of the MiniAtlas window.



Technology

  • The text labels on the map are based on data extracted by de:User:Stefan Kühn processed by de:User:Kolossos combining coordinate data from several different language versions. The data is fetched by XMLHTTP-requests from a custom HTTP server program which keeps the data sorted into quadtrees for fast retrieval.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the red dot not exactly at the position of the article marker?
The coordinates of the article markers are not necessarily the same as the coordinated coded in the actual article you are viewing. This may have different reasons:
  • The coordinate has been changed since the last extraction run
  • The coordinate in the database was extracted from an article version in a different language. Articles linked by interwikilinks are assumed to have the same coordinates, however, the geocoding accuracy can vary considerably across projects)
  • Numerical errors in the Javascript interpreter restrict the matching accuracy (they shouldn't in a perfect world...)
I am from xx.wikipedia.org and would like to enable the WikiMiniAtlas on our project
Great, a bare map without any clickable links should work out of the box, just add code to include MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js in your local MediaWiki:Common.js file. Please do not copy the whole javascript code to your project as you will not get automatic updates, and the interaction protocol between the client javascript and the server may change any time.
If you'd like clickable links in your project language on the map contact me and I'll add server-side support. But your project should have an active geocoding effort going on and must be supported by Wikipedia-World.
Where can I see it in action?
The WikiMiniAtlas is enabled by default in the english, italian, portugese, icelandic and catalan wikipedias.

Screenshots

The new detailed basemap

WikiMiniAtlas in action

Pyramids of Gizeh in satellite mode
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This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information all Wikimedia projects can use), with two Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the main text, edit the master help page for all projects at m:WikiMiniAtlas. You are welcome to copy the exact wikitext from the master page at Meta and paste it into this page at any time. To view this page in other languages see the master page at Meta.

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