[OSM-talk] Map tag in Wikipedia

[Harry Wood]

My three step plan for developing the Simple Map MediaWiki extension  
(<map> tag) :

1) Disable the old syntax (with '|' chars) after we've finished changing 
all pages on the OSM wiki. Same with the slippy map plugin

2) Add support for 'layer=mapnik' and other layers. Use ojw's new 
'GetMap' instead of his old 'MapOf' service, and maybe get the static 
maps service hosted at a better URL.

3) Take over wikipedia and then the world


Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote
 > Just installing an extension on Wikimedia and pulling tiles from OSM
 > would not be acceptable:
 >
 > * Wikimedia would need its own updated Planet dump
 > * Its own tile rendering infrastructure

Not necessarily. They could maybe just run the static image requests 
(and possibly even slippy map tile requests) via wikimedia's beefy squid 
proxy set-up. I think that was Tim Starling's idea when I chatted to him 
about it. But that was a while ago. Yes we should probably raise the 
discussion on wikitech-l (although this is step 3)


Ed Loach wrote
 > Funnily enough I've just been amending some wiki pages which used the 
old <map> syntax where z= or zoom= where allowed; the new syntax only 
supports z=.

Sorry that was bug. Fixed now, although there's no harm in switching all 
pages to use 'z'


Harry Wood