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With Media Explorer, you can now search for tweets and videos on Twitter and YouTube directly from the Add Media screen in WordPress.
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WordPress.com hosted OSM map tiles #26

Closed johnbillion closed 10 years ago

johnbillion commented 11 years ago

Swapping out the Google map on the Twitter 'By Location' tab for an OpenStreetMap powered map is relatively straight forward. The main issue is that using openstreetmap.org-hosted map tiles for heavy use is forbidden (and generally frowned upon due to the tile server being funded by donations).

I know it's probably above my pay grade to suggest such a thing, but it would be very neat if WordPress.com introduced its own OSM tile server, especially if Media Explorer ends up getting bundled into Jetpack.

It would reduce Media Explorer's dependency on Google maps, although it would still be using Google's Geolocation API for geocoding location names.

paulgibbs commented 11 years ago

If users would still need to set up API keys etc to be able to make the Twitter API requests, there's not much benefit from a usability or set-up point of view.

Happy that we can add any filters etc so if someone did want to do this, they can just filter a few things and insert a custom URL, etc. i.e. I still plan to make sure everything in the PHP is filtered/actioned, but if I miss anything that would make this work, let me know.