Currently Tilerator supports an arbitrary list of languages through a
method that is fairly hacky. It has to use this method because the
underlying tilelive source doesn't support an arbitrary list of fields.
Tegola faces the same issue where you have to tell it in advance the
list of field names, preventing support of arbitrary languages. How do
you plan to resolve this?
On 2021-03-22 10:10 a.m., Erica Litrenta wrote:
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
<http://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
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator>
[1]
https://tegola.io/ <https://tegola.io/>
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
<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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