Hello,
I see two points, the first is non-technical: We should have little
bridges between both projects on each continent, in each country. These
bridges could be volunteers or employees of chapters (only part-time).
It would be nice if we could promote OSM together with WP where it is
necessary. It would be nice if would be able to give a minimum on tech.
support for the community. It would be also nice to make some local
events together and combine the results of different data collecting.
With the maps&geo-team we should also have an central point in WMF to
reduce internal friction.
The second point: The most interesting technical project I see in the
moment would be to set-up vector-tiles-rendering, it would allow us to
use multilingualmaps on a large style and would give us flexiblity to
design different maps without the database as a bottle neck. I know it
would be not easy to deploy the existing software from mapbox, but it
seems possible, with some help.
Greetings Tim
Am 10.05.2014 23:59, schrieb Quim Gil:
For your information, today at the Wikimedia Hackathon
some of us had
the pleasure to walk, learn, and talk with Simon Poole, chairman of the
OpenStreetMap Foundation.
Long story short, we could talk more and collaborate better beyond the
priceless personal dedication of some volunteers with links in both
projects.
Let's have a chat! Online. In your opinion, which are the most important
technical topics that Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap should discuss?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Quim Gil* <qgil(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:qgil@wikimedia.org>>
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014
Subject: We need to organize a Tech Talk
To: simon@osm
Please check with your community which are the 1-2 topics that they
would like to discuss with Wikimedia Foundation engineers and the
technical community in general.
Let's start with 1-2 only. If there are more, let's document all of them
at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
See also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects -- OSM *must*
be in our radar.
Thank you for the conversation and the walk!
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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