I have been traveling (at the OSM conference and holiday), and had limited or no internet.  So, I wasn't checking e-mails and didn't so much coding as hoped.  At a glance, your code changes look good, especially the parser tests and parameter validation.  I can look in more detail and see what needs to be done now.

For Wikimania, I'm mostly interested in talking about possibly providing a custom map generation service on the map toolserver.   I'm working on the ability to generate custom static maps (no zoom/panning) with a small number of base map options including OSM and custom overlays, pulling data from places like data.gov.  If I can succeed with getting something like this working really well, then there is potential of funding and support for further development (http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/).

For an OSM preconference workshop, I think the local Argentinian will be doing something targeted for the local (e.g. Spanish speaking) audience.  I don't know details right now.

-Kate



On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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 :)