Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Disclaimer: I do not know much about the specifics of the iOS implementation, so can only speak about overall approach and possible concerns. * Per WMF privacy policy, we cannot use outside servers if that exposes our user's browsing behaviour. Thus any outside servers must be proxied to be consum

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Agree with Corey, I've mentioned this elsewhere , but it's important to note that as of iOS 6 , Apple has been (and still appears to be

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Any reason to import a 3rd party library for functionality built in to the iOS SDK? Seems like work to explore/integrate a dependency where none is needed. Without this extra work, this is something that can be built in < 1 day. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote: > Cool, lo

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Cool, looks like mapbox has an iOS SDK . Is there somewhere that the progress on funding is being tracked? Put another way, where should I direct PM, design, etc. to get this prioritized? Also, I think it'd be worth it to ship this to a percentage of users

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Current state of affairs: https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ is up and running, and should have all the data soon. It uses mapbox stack, which means that it generates vector data tiles, and creates a PNG tiles on the fly. This also means that in a few days, you will be able to view WebGL based ma

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Hey - yes, we're workig on serving map tiles. Both raster and MapBox vectors. Our current demo implementation is at https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ - only raster tiles ATM, vectors coming in 1-2 days. The main problem, however, is budgeting - yet if we get very little hardware, concentrating on m

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Related to that, one consideration is use of a production domain in the typical production IP address range used by operators supporting destination IP address-based zero-rating ("IP whitelisting") for Wikipedia Zero users. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero/IP_Addresses * -Adam * By

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Meant to send to the list. Katie On May 27, 2015 11:33 AM, "aude" wrote: > > > On May 27, 2015 2:46 AM, "Bernd Sitzmann" wrote: > > > > Yes, we're using the mapbox API for Android. There's one for iOS and Web, too. > > Its pretty cool. It allows for customized tooltips on the place markers. > >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

Slightly related, are there any new plans for the maps and geo team after this update [1]? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Engineering%2F2014-15_Goals&type=revision&diff=1439752&oldid=1439358 *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige