Sorry for cross-posting
Do you create interactive maps with Kartographer [1] (mapframe)? If your
answer is yes, we would like to hear from you. Where do you run into
problems using it? Which new features would you like to see?
Please take part in our survey:
https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Kartographer-Workflows-EN/
- The survey is open until March 31.
- It takes 10-15 minutes to complete.
- The survey is anonymous. You don't need to register, and we will not
store any personal data which identifies you, such as your name or IP
address.
Language:
Unfortunately, the survey is only available in English, but we have tried
our best to use simple English and to add visual examples. If English is
not your native language, it might help to use a translation tool in your
browser.
Project background:
Wikimedia Germany's Technical Wishes team [2] is currently working on
the Kartographer
extension [1]. Over the last few months, we have been working on a solution
to make this software usable on wikis where it isn’t available yet [3]. In
the next phase of the project, we are planning to improve Kartographer
itself. More information on our work with Kartographer and the focus area
of Geoinformation can be found on our project page [4].
Thank you for your help!
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191585
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation
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Johanna Strodt
Project manager community communications Technical Wishlist
Wikimedia Deutschland
Hi everyone!
Wikimaps User Group seeks contact persons for the year 2022. Wikimaps User
Group is not managing a budget, and the contact person's role is
practically to oversee that reporting is delivered in time and that there
will be contact persons for the next term. Reporting takes place
collectively by adding information to the current year's section of
the Activity
reports page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Activity_reports>.
Anyone who is listed on the members list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Members> before the
1st of December 2021, may self-nominate on the User Group's talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimaps_User_Group#Contact_persons_fo…>.
Supporting candidates takes place on a rolling basis. As soon as there is a
candidate, you can support that candidate by adding a Support tag with your
signature. You can support any number of candidates.
The current contact persons Susannaanas
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> and Abbe98
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abbe98> are a fallback option if
no-one steps up. Any candidate that gets at least two votes, can be
considered for the position over the current contact persons.
Election ends on 30 December End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) and the
contact persons will be confirmed by 31 December End of Day, Anywhere on
Earth (AoE).
Thank you, and have a regenerating, festive holiday break!
On behalf of the current contact persons,
Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) 🦜
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Susannaanas>
PS. Can you kindly link your 2021 mappy activities to the Activity Reports
page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Activity_reports#2021>!
Hi,
When opening some maps full screen, in addition to the pushpin, the
map also shows a contour for the item, even though the Wikidata item
does not have any associated geo data. I'm guessing that the data
comes from OSM through their Wikidata/Wikipedia tags. Example:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4684917 (check the Romanian article for
a mapframe).
Is there a way to obtain that relation data into a Lua module? I'm
trying to determine the optimum zoom for an item and having its bbox
would help greatly.
Thank you,
Strainu
Hi everyone,
I’d like to use the Wikimedia Maps Tiles for the Wiki Loves Monuments Italy app (see https://github.com/ferdi2005/monumenti) which is obviously strictly Wikimedia related. :)
Is there anything else I need to do other than notifying this list?
Cheers,
Ferdinando
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)>
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From: Stephen LaPorte <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:56 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming change to the Wikimedia Maps Terms of Use
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
On April 5, 2020, we will update the Wikimedia Maps Terms of Use. Following
the access limits announced in August 2020 [0] and implemented in October
2020 [1], the Wikimedia Maps service no longer supports third-party usage
of Wikimedia map tiles. We are now updating the terms to reflect this
policy.
This change will not affect support for Wikimedia Maps on the Wikimedia
projects, tools hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services, or other allowed
Wikimedia-affiliated domains. [2]
The updated Maps Terms of Use is available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Revised_Maps_Terms_of_Use_(March_2021)
If you have any suggestions, you can add them to the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Revised_Maps_Terms_of_Use_(March_2021)
Under our Maps Terms of Use, we've committed to providing 14 days notice
before changes are made to the policy.
Best,
Stephen
[0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2020-August/001729.html
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261694
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Stephen LaPorte (he/him/his)
Legal Director
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello all,
If you are a member of the Wikimaps User Group, I created a Meta page for
the user group to revitalize itself based on a message from AffCom shared
by Susanna in the Wikimaps Telegram group.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Revitalization
We can have some discussions here, but for transparency and because not
everyone is on this mailing list, I would suggest we do our discussions
on-wiki at the talk page as much as possible.
Regards,
Eugene
Hello all,
The Wikimaps User Group is currently in the non-compliant state as a WMF
affiliate because of a missing report for the last year. See this notice on
the Meta talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=20926926
Here's the status of our reports:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Activity_reports
I guess we can just report that there is no activity for 2020 because of
the pandemic? So unless anybody has anything to report, let's say there's
nothing to report.
(This has also been cross-posted to the Wikimaps Telegram and Facebook
groups. Feel free to reply anywhere.)
Regards,
Eugene