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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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