[OSM-dev] Announcing the launch of OSM Maps for Wikipedia

Yuri Astrakhan yastrakhan at wikimedia.org
Fri Sep 18 12:53:06 UTC 2015


Sadly not yet -- mapnik needs to be substantially changed to pass through
the hstore. Looking for a kind hardcore c++ soul ))
On Sep 18, 2015 11:03, "Sylvain Maillard" <sylvain.maillard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulation, that's a great work !
>
> did you manage to find a way to provide localization for all languages
> within the vector tiles ?
>
>
> cheers,
> Sylvain
>
>
> 2015-09-17 23:03 GMT+02:00 Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Congratulations! Awesome stuff, been looking forward to it for some
>> time. I particularly like the different resolutions for various device
>> uses.
>>
>> Will try to add it as the default layer for the Wikimedia Commons
>> Wikimaps Warper (warper.wmflabs.org) application for georectifying
>> historical maps soon.  Perhaps one day the same architecture could be
>> used to power mosaics of historical atlases  - but let's get the world
>> right now working first :)
>>
>> Cheers and look forward to seeing maps.wikimedia.org progress in the
>> months to come!
>>
>> On 17 September 2015 at 19:46, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Wikimedia Foundation has implemented a new vector tile service
>> Kartotherian
>> > (Mapbox+Mapnik stack) and launched an experimental tile and static maps
>> > service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org. Using this service,
>> you can
>> > browse and embed map tiles into your own tools using OpenStreetMap data.
>> > Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs.org and *.wikivoyage.org
>> > (referrer header must be either missing or set to these values) but we
>> hope
>> > to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if we see enough use.
>> >
>> > Getting started is as easy as
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Getting_Started
>> >
>> > Tiles are served from https://maps.wikimedia.org, but can only be
>> accessed
>> > from *.wmflabs.org and *.wikivoyage.org.  Kartotherian can produce
>> tiles as
>> > images (png), and as raw vector data (pbf Mapbox format or json):
>> >
>> https://maps.wikimedia.org/{source}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}[@{scale}x].{format}
>> >
>> > Additionally, Kartotherian can produce snapshot (static) images of any
>> > location, scaling, and zoom level with
>> >
>> >
>> https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/{source},{zoom},{lat},{lon},{width}x{height}[@{scale}x].{format}
>> > For example, to get an image centred at 42,-3.14, at zoom level 4, size
>> > 800x600, use
>> https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,4,42,-3.14,800x600.png
>> > (copy/paste the link, or else it might not work due to referrer
>> > restriction).
>> >
>> > Editing map style is very easy using the Mapbox Studio, and does not
>> require
>> > any data on your machine - simply point it at Wikimedia server.
>> >
>> > How can you help?
>> > * Provide us feedback to help guide future features
>> > * Improve our map styles
>> > * Improve our data extraction
>> > * File bugs in Phabricator
>> > * Adapt your labs tool to use this service - for example, use Leaflet js
>> > library and point it to https://maps.wikimedia.org
>> >
>> > Based on usage and your feedback, the Discovery team will decide how to
>> > proceed. We could add more data sources (both vector and raster), work
>> on
>> > additional services such as static maps or geosearch, work on
>> supporting all
>> > languages, switch to client-side WebGL rendering, etc. Please help us
>> decide
>> > what is most important.
>> >
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps has more about the project and
>> related
>> > Maps work.
>> >
>> > We would like to thank WMF Ops (especially Alex Kosiaris, Brandon
>> Black, and
>> > Jaime Crespo), services team, OSM community and engineers, and the
>> Mapnik
>> > and Mapbox teams. The project would not have completed so fast without
>> you.
>> >
>> >
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