Maps-l

maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org

495 discussions

SVG Maps
by Daniel Kinzler 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi all I'm wondering if any thought has been given to rendering maps to SVG. I'm asking that especially in the light of <http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/svg-for-all-with-flash/> which might give use in-browser display of SVG, and perhaps even interactive SVG. Using that with OSM would be really cool! Now, afaik Mapnik supports SVG rendering. But I suspect that interactive vector maps would work differently from interactive pixel-based maps: you could scale smoothly, could use much bigger tiles, and would use level-of-detail layers instead of pre-scaled tiles... Does somethign like that exist yet? -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Phone +49 30 219 158 260 Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us achieve that! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

3 5

Re: [Maps-l] organisation of casinni
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Gerald A<geraldablists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> And really, this server needs a better administrator than me. I'm only >> doing it because I needed it to develop the SlippyMap extension & >> related infrastructure and it seemed like nobody else could be found >> to do it. But I'm not familiar enough with how to set such a box up >> properly nor do I really have the interest since system administering >> isn't a project I like doing in my spare time. > > I'm not sure what kind of help you need, but I'd be willing to assist. I've > offered some assistance in the past, but I'm not sure what would be needed > to get enough access to help in a meaningful way. Basically someone else than me who has time and know how (which I don't really have:) needs to take care of it. I'll be away from the internet for most of August so if another admin isn't found the box will be crippled for the near future.

6 8

Fwd: OSM server status
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Here's an update on the server status from Daniel, looks like we won't be able to do anything with the servers until the end of the month. Cassini (the osm-toolserver) is also down for what looks like until the end of the month. I'll be afk for almost all of august leading up to Wikimania so I the things I need before that time I'm just going to set up on my own somewhat more limited colo server. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM Subject: OSM server status To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com>, Sven Anders <sven(a)anders-hamburg.de>, Kolossos <tim.alder(a)s2002.tu-chemnitz.de> Hi all Jens just told me that we'll have to wait some more until the OSM boxes are up. There is currently no console access, so Jens can't set up the OS. This will have to wait until Mark is back, it seems. Mark is graduating, so we only have someone for emergencies at the colo. Any hardware setup has to wait until he is back, which will be at the end of july.

5 21

Test wiki with the cassini static/dynamic maps
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Here's a test wiki with the static/dynamic maps being served by cassini: http://u.nix.is/wiki/index.php/Maptest That wiki supports the locale= parameter to the extension so you can play around with different languages: (see this bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19961 ) Thanks to a recent patch to the export script when you embed a static map now the static exporter should inject requests into the tile rendering queue for the area being viewed on the map (actually a slightly larger one): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/53815 So once someone embeds a static map clicking it to get the dynamic version should Just Work(TM).

3 4

organisation of casinni
by Tim Alder 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hello, perhaps a stupid question but how we want to organise the tools from developers on cassini? If I understand it right we have the same home-directory than in the rest of the cluster. So if I have a tool in my home/public_html it should run on http://cassini.toolserver.org/~kolossos/... But this doesn't work in the moment. I tested it with my existing scripts. So where should a developer save the scripts? Alternative we should support projects with more than one developer like we do on stable server, but it should be as simple as possible. So what is the plan? Greetings Kolossos

2 2

Accounts for the OSM-Toolserver
by Tim Alder 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

2009/7/21, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com>: >> Speaking of which why don't we have any users yet? Is everything >> stalled on getting the DB machine up or are there some tools that can >> just use Cassini as-is? How is Unix-account approval being managed >> (who's taking care of that?). >> >> >> For more users on the machine perhaps we should write a new message on the different mailing lists that it now starts. The last message from us was at the beginning of april. I can post to the german OSM list and can contact some people directly which are geo interested. Some of them have a already a toolserver account. Perhaps somebody else can post to the english list. On jira is no OSM-Toolserver account request pending [1],[2]. That's the start point, than I can support the admins to decide about such a request. Also if we have no database-server in the moment it could be only good for the setup of cassini if we know what people wants to do. Greetings Kolossos [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide… [2]https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_approval_process

2 1

start of the wikipedia import into open streetmap
by jamesmikedupont＠googlemail.com 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Here is an wikipedia xml dump parser to osm changeset. here is the code https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesmikedupont/+junk/openstreetmap-wikipedia I have taken and modified code from coast_import gary68 revert The test data is included. Goal is to extract all features from kosovo and to put them in open streetmap. if we can find a server I will also host our own server for OSM data for kosovo. thanks mike please note, we are working on a FLOSS conference on the 29/30 of august, all invited. http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/

1 0

start of the wikipedia import into open streetmap
by jamesmikedupont＠googlemail.com 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

1 0

Our talks at Wikimania
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Hi there, it looks like our talks for Wikimania 2009 have been scheduled: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule#Day_2 I won't be around for much of August so I'm trying to do all the work of working on software / my talk now before the end of July. So before that time I'd like to coordinate with you two (and other people?) how we're going to: * Do this pre-conference OSM workshop that we've signed up for * Split up our talks so that we make sure we don't have overlapping subjects and don't miss anything important. Basically what I'm interested in presenting for the latter is what I blathered about at the Wikimania hacking days: * A technical overview of how this OSM on Wikimedia thing works, i.e. Planet.osm -> Database -> Rendering -> Embedding in MediaWiki * Demos on using the extension for things I'm working on that'll (hopefully!) be finished at that time, e.g.: * Static map generation: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19654 * Multilingular map generation: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19668 (I'm going to do this by e.g. showing the West Bank in both Hebrew & Arabic) * Whatever else fits into that general criteria that I'm forgetting when writing this hurried e-mail For the latter it would be nice to: * Get in contact with that local Argentinian OpenStreetMapper/Wikipedian that someone mentioned and get him in on this * Find out what our audience will be, what are they likely to want? * Schedule some sort of outline for what we want to do .*I* can blather about GPS collecting -> editing -> map generation or whatever and answer questions, but it would be nice if we had something more focused than that :)

2 1

How should I generate static OSM maps for Wikimedia with the SlippyMap extension?
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hello there, long time no see:) In the last few days I've been working on the project of getting OpenStreetMap onto Wikimedia as outlined here: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/openstreetmap-maps-will-be-added-to-w… Unfortunately I wasn't able to hack on it sooner (but of course other people have been working on it too!) and the project has been somewhat held up by the WM-DE servers being delayed. Anyway, one thing standing between us and world domination is rendering those static maps, I'm going to implement this but first I'd like to get comments on *how* we'd like to do it, so I've written a plan for doing it: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap/Static_map_generation Would generating static images like that be fine for Wikimedia purposes or is this totally crazy? I think it would be just fine, but then again I did write the Cite extension so take that with a grain of salt:) And to spam a bit: if getting pretty OpenStreetMap maps deployed is something you'd like to happen sooner than later head over to our development page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap#Development I'm working off the Bugzilla tasklist which should be an approximate indication of stuff that needs to be done.

2 3

← Newer
1
...
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Older →

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

Maps-l