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>
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
Hello together,
I'm glad to can say that we have now an OSM-database which we can access
from WMFLabs / Toollabs.
To access the database use:
psql -h labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet gis -U osm
This means host is labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet, database is gis
and user is osm.
More infos about Toollabs are here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
Shorter version:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools…
On Labs we have a maps-project with some instances:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Maps
Inside this database you can find OSM database for mapnik rendering,
WIWOSM data and Wikipedia coordinates from Wikipedia-World project.
Javascript Libraries are also moved to:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/osm/libs/
Kai is in the moment working to set-up the render stack.
So it's a good time for all mapnik-style-designers from Toolserver, to
start now updating styles. It would be nice if these styles are updated
end of May.
I'm optimistical that this can be a good restart of activities we had on
Toolserver. With new developments like Wikidata, with the flexibility of
labs (root-rights for everyone) and the simplicity of Tool-labs
(administrated by professionals /multimaintainer projects by default) I
see a bright future for maps and geo-data on this plattform.
Everything is still at the beginning, documentation have to write and
lot of things have to set-up. Any help is welcome.
For question and comments use this list, which could also come back to
old activity-level.
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
>
> 2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>:
> > For the short term, I think further exploration of the Map namespace is
> > great, but I think generic visualization work could go into the
> > Visualization namespace. My suggestion for a name for this namespace may
> > seem a bit obscure. It's a word that means "to illuminate": Limn [5].
>
> 3) It's a word that is difficult to translate.
>
I'm open to alternatives, but my original choice (WikiViz) was taken
hi,
after being told about this mailinglist at the Zurich event this past weekend,
here I'm.
I'm Simone Cortesi, OSM early adopter (anno 2005), started the italian
community.
Previously with the OpenStreetMap Foundation, where I've been board
member, now with Wikimedia Italia, where I'm elected member to the
Board.
PS: I love maps :)
--
-S
hi,
I've seen few maps on commons that I would like to warp with
http://warper.wmflabs.org/
how do I do that?
it seems there is no way to select a commons image for that task
any other warper around?
Thanks,
Simone.
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a
generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps
like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we
standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share
data better.
We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what
such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a
specific use case.
The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a
Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can
be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the
inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may
want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation.
I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In
particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my
usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to
use it".
Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a
maps extension up on a wikimedia box!
Jon
[1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps
Hello,
I'm glad to can announce my last experiment to work with Wikidata and
Wikipedia-coordinates:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php?lang=en
This list shows how many objects we have in different classes and
provide links to maps with only this specific class.
I think it's much more useful than in the past where 80% of our
coordinates were simply a "landmark".
To create this tool I used properties "is instance of"[1] and "is
subclass of"[2]. To extract this properties it was necessary to use
"Wikidata Query".
Now all classes, where an object is a member, are in a numerical
array-element in the database. So with an index on this array it should
have a good performances.
Next steps are to try to bring more order inside this list and support
the community to create more "is instance of"-entries in Wikidata. (Only
30% off all objects have such an entry).
Greetings from Switzerland
Kolossos
[1]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31
[2]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279