Talk:Web mapping

message: Could we have some standard capitalization for "web mapping"? Currently, the article uses a wide mix including this, "Web mapping", "WebMapping", and "Web Mapping", though the last may just occur in section headings, where its capitalization shouldn't be changed from standard, see the Manual of Style.
:Yes, I have to be more consistent. I suggest using "web mapping" (small caps, two words), except for headings. 
:Thanks, Andreasneumann 12:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardize letter case for subject name 

message: I like ; it gives useful information on topics I
find interesting. However, I only just now found the page because few other
related pages link to it, as mentioned above. I will try to add some links to
and from this page. I refactored this talk page slightly,
breaking up two discussion topics into separate sections, so we may discuss
them separately better. --Teratornis 19:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk page refactoring 

message: I'm trying to add relevant links to terms in 
for which a defining (or at least substantially relevant) article exists
elsewhere in Wikipedia. In some cases  uses
common words in uncommon or specialized ways. Where 
does not define its particular use of a term, the reader would benefit
from a link or footnote which does. 
The lead section of  does not define
what it means by "security issue" in this sentence:
It also implicates many challenges due to [...] copyright and security issues [...]. 
Merely linking security to Security sheds no light, because 
the Security article talks about the general meanings. "Security issue"
implies some sort of threat, by one or more people, or some inanimate process,
against one or more people, or someone's interests, or some inanimate process 
or object. The article leaves the reader to guess the identities of all the 
unstated entities implied by "security issue," which renders the phrase
meaningless to any reader who fails to guess what specific security threat
the author had in mind. The proximity to "copyright" might suggest that
the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder(s) are
at risk, but the article does not make that explicit. Other possible
interpretations include threats to the security of users of Web maps,
or threats to the security of third parties when someone uses map data
maliciously. Would someone who knows what the article means by "security
issue" give more details about it? If the phrase is a forward reference 
to something explained later in the article, then let's link the phrase
to the relevant section. --Teratornis 03:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about "security issue" 

message: I made a link to the Chinese article on "electronic map service". It was an article I split off from the Chinese article for electronic map awhile back. If this link is deemed inappropriate please discuss and remove accordingly. --Voidvector 06:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki Link 

message: :Image:Mapquest.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Mapquest.JPG

message: All of the external links, except the ones that are actually about web mapping, should be removed. The way I see it, the only ones that meet WP:EL are the four at the bottom, on Web Mapping Tutorials and Web Mapping News. The rest are advertising or promotion. Geologyguy 15:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: :Image:GoogleEarthLogo.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot (talk) 22:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:GoogleEarthLogo.JPG

message: I believe a company called YYMAP.com was the first to offer a "google style" interactive map on the web.  Their site served vector data to a custom IE extension that rendered the map in the browser.  The company was around as early as the late 90's, but I cann't find any record of it today.  Google search turn up resumes for some of the old employees.  But I think these guys should get the credit for the first dynamic pan/zoom map that was on-line.  even if it was only in IE.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moclimb (talk • contribs) 00:09, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Interactive Web Maps 

message: It says: "A first classification of web maps has been made by Kraak" - this isn't true, there were plenty of classification attempts before Kraak  (i.e. Fitzke et al. (1997), Rinner (1998)). As it notes, his classification is now very dated. A more current one to re-write that section about may be Plewe's and his dividing them up into generations: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3006/is_2_34/ai_n29356016/ 193.63.129.209 (talk) 18:18, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Types of webmaps 

message: The reason for blanking the sections is debatable.
I hope we don't have to debate it.
That the article is poorly written is not debatable.  It is poorly written.
That the article is to be entirely deleted was debated already.
The sections are poorly titled.  I don't think they're convenience links or pro-and-con links.
I'm trying to edit the page to improve it, but got only a few seconds to try and do so.  
Now please, give me a few days? — CpiralCpiral 15:12, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Having read the sections I firmly believe that the sections shouldn't be there per WP:UNDUE. This is a neutral encyclopedia, and should only be reciting the views of others. It shouldn't be giving advantages and disadvantages. If it was me, I'd reword them in userspace.--Launchballer 15:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's bad. (I hope you'll like the change effort.)  I think it's not NPOV, but WP:RS maybe, WP:NOR maybe. But certainly its wording.  There are so many real NPOV and UNDUE, AfD,  Wikipedia:Convenience links, and Wikipedia:Pro and con lists issues that you were seeing here (fix started!) on Wikipedia.  Please help. — CpiralCpiral 16:02, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not help that the entire section is unsourced. How's it looking now?--Launchballer 16:53, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that edit conflict, as soon as I reintegrate your changes, I'll be back here.  I just made a first pass.  We'll see, I'm sure. — CpiralCpiral 19:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

text: Certainly. You said you was going to reintegrate my changes, which I quickly did. While I was at it, I fixed a load of referencing errors, some already there, some introduced by you.--Launchballer 20:55, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, back to where we had the ec.  We both edited the article, and I accepted that.  Then I asked if you would wait, I said "I'll be back after I fix the ec".  I make the same request now:  can I please edit without expectation of any further "integration complexities"?  I accept that said work may be reverted, but I respectfully offer include your input.  Primarily though, I started first, and your edits were ill timed.  I want my original assertions honored, with yours, while I ask for time to do so. May I have a few days, or what do you need? — CpiralCpiral 22:59, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't've thought it would take that long, but I can leave it until the weekend. How does that sound?--Launchballer 23:51, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It won't take that long. I'm on integration right away til it's done "our way", but then we might to talk further about my choices of your edits.  I took out a lot of stuff that I'm sure ruffled our feathers, and I'm not sure yet what you did not take out that I did take out! We'll see shortly. Your response seems generous and understanding. — CpiralCpiral 00:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

text: It's fine, I've fixed the cite errors.--Launchballer 00:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine.  Then I'll just review that big cleanup tag, and see if we can't have it slimmed to nothing. — CpiralCpiral 00:41, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section  blanking 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: Hello everyone.
Previously I had discussed a page name change, and was rightfully told that Web mapping is enough of its own topic that new pages should be created for the other topics. On this line, I have been working to create a few pages and organize categories related to using computers to handle spatial data. 
My understanding is that there are two categories Web Mapping falls under. 
The first is Geographic information systems>Distributed GIS>Internet GIS>Web GIS>Web mapping 
The second is Cartography>Digital mapping>Web mapping.
There is a lot of overlap between these topics but they are all distinct, large, terms used in the literature. There is a lot on this page that I think could be moved to both the Internet GIS and Web GIS pages, especially around the historical timeline. It seems Web mapping has been the default page for most of the Web and internet GIS content. Creating this discussion so we can talk about reorganization. GeogSage (talk) 17:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving Content between pages.  

message: — Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello @Anieukir and @Amckune! This article needs a lot of work in my opinion and I welcome assistance. If you need citations, there are links above to some of the other GIS based pages. In December 2022, I laid out some of my ideas for how this page could fit in with the others relevant pages on Wikipedia(Geographic information systems, Distributed GIS, Internet GIS, Web GIS, Web Map Service, Cartography, and Computer cartography to name a few). There are a lot of good Web GIS and Web Mapping related content there if you would like to take a look. GeogSage  (⚔Chat?⚔)  18:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture