Hi Erika,
Just wondering, has there been any uptake by OSM of WMF improvements or adaptations to OSM products and services? I'd like to encourage OSM-WMF collaboration wherever possible.
Pine
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Erika Bjune ebjune@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Svetlana,
While we do get data from OSM, we run our own tile server called Kartotherian https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian, mainly for the following reasons:
- OSM's infrastructure is fragile and has cache challenges
- Their datacenter is in London, which means latency becomes an issue
- OSM's rendering stack can't scale horizontally well enough to be
sure they could handle our load
- Their map style is not mobile friendly
- We require multilingual and vector tiles, which their stack can't do
(currently)
- We wanted to provide nicer map styling in general
Hope that helps!
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Svetlana Tkachenko < svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:
Are we even building our own tiles? I thought the 'Wikimedia maps' is just an interface to OSM.
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