[OSM-talk] Fwd: Maps on Wikimedia

Alex Rollin alex.rollin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 11:54:40 UTC 2015


+1 bravo!

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Alex

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-
> March/081243.html :
> (You can login on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org with your Wikipedia
> account too, among others.)
>
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>
> Hi, just a quick note: as part of general search and discovery work, me and
> Yuri are resurrecting the project to have OpenStreetMap in Wikimedia
> starting in April. Because the initial part of this work will include
> researching options which will influence precise goals and this is yet to
> be done, we still can't commit to a precise timeline, but as a ballpark
> estimate I personally want to aim for serving PNG tiles at a reasonable,
> though not necessarily "dynamic maps on every WP page" scale by the end of
> Q4. Vector/multilingual maps would be the next stage. We will be mostly
> using Phabricator for planning,
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/openstreetmap/ is my first pass on
> the outline of things to be done.
>
> Your comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated, please share
> your thoughts, ideas of projects that might use these maps, or just
> merciless critique! :D
>
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> Best regards,
> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
>
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