Hello Pine,
> 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.
We are fortunate to have a developer on our maps team who is also a board member of and contributor to OSM, and what he has explained to me is that our two organizations have very different use cases for maps that each require different levels of infrastructure and development. In fact, you may have seen his great response earlier on this list about the differences between OSM and WMF map tile rendering needs.[0]
So, to some extent, we are already in collaboration, but for OSM to adopt the weight of WMF's needs is really up to them. We are very glad to be able to utilize the data their community curates, and perhaps over time we will move even closer together on the collaboration spectrum. Thanks for the suggestion, it certainly makes sense to consider it!
Best,
Erika