Mapping tool

[Jyothis]

Display geograhical blips on a map based on edits

[waldyrious]

This has already been done: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ (but perhaps a nicer implementation can be achieved)

[edsu]

I'm not sure if all edits have an IP address to use to try to geocode the editor's location. Perhaps adding a location if known could be useful I guess. But I'm not sure a full blown map will fit nicely in the interface I have. Perhaps another view would work though...

[waldyrious]

Indeed, one of the benefits of having an account is precisely that it masks one's IP address so that it's hidden for everyone except a small group of people, who btw can only look it up under special circumstances. But a visualization of edits wouldn't lose much by featuring only anonymous accounts, I believe. A different view for this (with a map, etc) makes sense.

Anyway, if you plan to add location info to the current list view, I'd suggest a flag icon (earlier today I was about to suggest these for languages, but there would be problems since there isn't a one-to-one relationship between countries and languages), but probably not immediately next to the language codes, to prevent confusion.

[edsu]

Yes a flag for location would definitely make sense. I used to have
them for languages, but several people rightly complained (what's the
flag for Arabic) so I removed them. But a flag for the anonymous
editors location would be appropriate I think. I just don't know how
it will look to have some flags (only for anonymous edits). Worth an
experiment I guess. I wonder what people use for geocoding IP
addresses these days.

[edsu]

Might be interesting to try some crazy webgl stuff