Greetings,
This is a follow up from our last email some months ago. You may already
have seen today's announcement from Legal about the upcoming changes to the
Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that Wikimedia Maps are
transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase of this
transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our vector
tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there should
be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.
It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to
support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps
aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and
learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those
engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease
and low effort.
If you want to learn more, please head to
mediawiki.org [2], where you will
also find a Questions & Answers section.
Thanks, and take care,
Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)
[0]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator
[1]
https://tegola.io/
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
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Erica Litrenta (she/her)
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)>