GeoJSON

[codemasher]

http://gw2.chillerlan.net/examples/leaflet-maps-v2-geojson.html

However, i'm a bit unhappy with the map response. Once we get sector boundarys and maybe event data, it'd require additional features for each polyline/polygon.

[lye]

I might be wrong, but I believe all map labels are actually sector or region names (including, for example, the labels on the WvW maps).

For the unlock features -- we should be able to pass the type. We can also pass the render icon URL, if there's a place to jam that in (I'm not familiar with the GeoJSON spec). I think that, in addition to dungeons, we might also be able to return vendor/tradingpost/bank/etc icon locations, but I'd have to double-check that that data isn't crazy.

I'm really not a fan of including all languages -- the way the backend servers are set up, each language is an additional request (because it has to switch languages in the same manner as the client) -- which is fairly wasteful if the application is only going to display one of them. Now that we're honoring the Accept-Language header, it should almost work automatically for browser-originated requests.

[codemasher]

The map/region labels (names) are in the root of the response, while sectors are under "points_of_interest" - so we need a Feature for these in GeoJSON. You can basically put anything into a properties object. See: http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html
NPC locations - that'd be awesome! :D

[lye]

It's less NPC locations and more "where the markers for NPCs are placed on the worldmap". I believe that the marker locations are derived from the NPC locations, but I'm not entirely sure.

[codemasher]

adding this here for uhmm... reference. https://gist.github.com/codemasher/713e2505bbd517e4530bc59a48b5cb60
https://github.com/GW2Wiki/widget-map-floors/blob/master/src/gw2-geojson.js

http://smiley.codes/maps/for/gw2/
https://cdn.rawgit.com/GW2Wiki/widget-map-floors/master/examples/example.html

[codemasher]

a basic google maps implementation
https://github.com/codemasher/gw2map
https://rawgit.com/codemasher/gw2map/master/public/index.html