Beste Talk'ers, Voor wie de internationale Talk-lijst niet volgt: Hay Kranen stuurde dit net door.
Op Do, april 9, 2009 12:39 schreef Hay: > Beste mensen, > for your information: er is dus progressie op het gebied van het integreren > van OpenStreetMap kaarten in Wikipedia. > > Met vriendelijke groet, > -- Hay Kranen > Secretaris Wikimedia Nederland > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM > Subject: [Wikitech-l] ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to > Wikimedia projects > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, OSM-Dev > Openstreetmap <d...@openstreetmap.org>, Talk Openstreetmap > <t...@openstreetmap.org> > > > > There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap > maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki Developer > Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in Berlin. > > > We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps > embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g. Wikipedia) pages: > > * Wikimedia will set up a database to mirror the OSM data (Planet.osm) > * Wikimedia will set up its own rendering infrastructure for rendering > tiles & other maps from the OSM data * The existing MediaWiki extensions > for displaying OSM data in a MediaWiki article will be improved to work > acceptably in production on Wikimedia servers > > > To prototype all this we'll be using new infrastructure provided by > Wikimedia Deutschland[2]. Once things have been tested there they'll > eventually be deployed on the main Wikimedia sites. > > After discussion with the Wikimedia operations people (including Brion > Vibber, Mark Bergsma et al) there seem to be no objections to the > above plan as long as: > > * The maps will work not only for JavaScript enabled browsers but also > non-JavaScript enabled ones * The tools involved are improved to be > relatively stable & deployable on Wikimedia, e.g. being able to embed more > than one slippy map, the internationalization of error messages etc. * The > end product (the generated tiles or map files) are cachable so that they > can be thrown at the frontend squids, as they're static images this should > be easy. > > The featureset that we're aiming for to be able to deploy this on > Wikimedia sites from the view of the user (more can be added later > once we've got it working) is: > > * The ability to embed OSM maps in articles with something like the > Simple image extension[3], perhaps automagically turning into a Slippy > Map if the browser supports it > * A static or slippy map that can be used by geotagged articles[4] so > we can have maps without explicit inclusion of a <map> tag. > > We'll also set up a map toolserver for experimenting with other uses > of OpenStreetMap data on Wikimedia. People with relevant projects can get > access[5] to this toolserver to try out their ideas for tools that could > eventually be integrated on the main Wikimedia sites. > > This project is seeking help from anyone who's interested who'd like > to be a part of making this happen, if you want to be a part of adding free > maps to the world's largest encyclopedia please subscribe to this mailing > list: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > > > And/or read/edit/comment on the relevant wiki coordination pages: > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia > > > 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009 > 2. > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap#.E2.80.9CMap_Toolserver.E2.8 > 0.9D > 3. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_image_MediaWiki_Extension > 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord > 5. mailto:o...@wikimedia.de > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Bas de Lange 06 166 26 950 Hoofdorganisator Software Freedom Day Nederland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0_KiVdIOtc http://softwarefreedom.nl/ _______________________________________________ Talk-nl mailing list Talk-nl@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-nl