I’ve created User:Aoppo/GlobstoryDev.js - Wikipedia that is the development version of the script.
Right now the mobile version doesn’t work very well (like the main script), what I mean is that if the world that is a country, is also an hyperlink, then is hard for the user to click on the word of a country without also clicking and changing webpage.
I was thinking one click to update the map; two fast clicks to open the hyperlink. Any advice?
Maybe it’s possible to insert a button into the article preview popup that appears when you hover over a link, and clicking that button does the same thing that the map would normally do when clicking on the text?
Sorry, I forgot to reply to this message.
I tried something similar, but there were too many icons and the webpage became a little bit too heavy.
By the way, version 2 is out ( with multi language support) Wiki-Map 2 – GlobStory
New version of the app.
First version for the Android mobile app. 
Hello,
I’ll brainstorm here about some ideas and experiments:
I was trying to show on the map the actual president/king, but I’m having some troubles understanding how to make things work with Wikidata.
My idea was: if a person over the mouse on Italy, in 1970, the OHM is updated to that place and time, and the name of the president of that time appears on a popup related to political information (if the user enabled this option).
What I’m trying to understand is: before Italy was actually Italy, so before 1861, how do I query the item without hard coding the query like here.?
Same problem with Germany (and all the other countries). Here a query that goes back to 1871 for Germany, but I don’t know how to get the data before in a dynamic way.
Do you think is possible to query Wiki-data/pedia to obtain that specific information? Theoretically if the user select Rome, there should be some sort of continuity between the actual president of the republic, and roman emperors.
Thanks!
Some Wikidata entries have the followed_by and follows tag to indicate which country it was before. Could you use that tag? (I think it’s a relatively small percent of countries that have this tag set in Wikidata.)
Here is an example on the Russian Empire
Thank you, I will look!
Another question: I’m trying to release GlobStory on F-droid and Playstore, and I’m bundling the OpenHistoricalMap time slider (leaflet-ohm-timeslider.js and mapstyle.js) inside an Android wrapper for GlobeStory. When I pulled the code from OpenHistoricalMap/leaflet-ohm-timeslider-v2, I couldn’t find any license file or SPDX notice. Before I release the app (Play Store / F-Droid) I need written confirmation that these files are available under a FLOSS license I can redistribute (e.g., MIT, BSD, GPL).
Could someone confirm the intended license or provide permission to reuse them? Thanks!
We’ll get you an answer asap. Hold on tight.
We’ve added a CC0 LICENSE file to the repo.
This isn’t a super-common way to “license” software, because, as @Minh_Nguyen put it so well, “it isn’t a license and isn’t open-source, it’s better.”
If this poses any issues for you, please be sure to let us know!
Wonderful, thank you!
