Talk:Panoramax
Move & change
It is considered best wiki practice to keep the history in a state that can be reviewed. You have basically deleted the article and recreated it. While it would have made it easier for others to see what happened if you did the rename/move in one change, and then inserted the text changes in another change. Bkil (talk) 10:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'm no wiki expert and wasn't aware of this. Can this be changed in any manner ? Best regards. --PanierAvide (talk) 10:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Panoramax vs. Geovisio
Could you clarify what the difference is between the two are? Is Panoramax a metasearch engine for instances running the Geovisio backend? Bkil (talk) 10:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Panoramax is a community of public/private actors and citizens working together around a set of standards to share geolocated pictures. GeoVisio is a piece of software making picture sharing technically possible. GeoVisio existed before Panoramax, and Panoramax could work with another software stack if one made it. To compare as Wikimedia world, GeoVisio would be MediaWiki and Panoramax the French Wikimedia local chapter. --PanierAvide (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- So what would be the correct terminology to refer to the whole global "Geovisio-verse"? I.e., all interconnecting instances around the world? That is the term that should ideally be mentioned on Street-level imagery services Bkil (talk) 10:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- The GeoVisio-verse doesn't exist ;-) We have a service called meta-catalog (website), [https://gitlab.com/geovisio/meta-catalog/ code) which lists all publicly available servers, which are today only GeoVisio servers, but could be a mix of various software stacks tomorrow. All pictures listed in meta-catalog is the Panoramax public dataset. --PanierAvide (talk) 11:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- So what would be the correct terminology to refer to the whole global "Geovisio-verse"? I.e., all interconnecting instances around the world? That is the term that should ideally be mentioned on Street-level imagery services Bkil (talk) 10:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Federation
The word "federation" seems to appear quite a lot. However, the term means something different than you may imply. Let's compare it to PeerTube. Each instance can follow the indexes of other instances. A visitor can search for any video from any instance (given it's on the allow list), and the search results will be shown in a single unified list. You can click on a search result hosted on any other instance and the video and its comments will be fetched and streamed through the same interface still accessible through the starting instance. A visitor can register a user account and follow user accounts or channels hosted on any other instances, getting notifications about new content from them. You can comment under videos posted on any other instance with your account. Visitors can list videos posted by a given account on various instances. Cross-server compatibility was also a thing a few years ago, but they have since refined on their model regarding this (it's not strictly required to be considered "federated" as long as all instances running the same software federate among each other as equal peers). Bkil (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Well, it's not federated (yet ?) as intended in PeerTube or Mastodon. If you have a more correct term in English for meaning many independent servers that can be harvested by a shared meta catalog, you can switch to it --PanierAvide (talk) 11:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)