Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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:
Woohoo!
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
I added a couple quickie notes on the talk page...
It might be good to use a Google Maps Static-like model here; the MediaWiki end can just make itself an <img> and stick all the relevant info onto the URL, calling out to the static map server.
Having a basic time-based expiration on rendered images is probably fine for our needs (and easy to handle, especially if we let the squids deal with keeping the static images around!)
-- brion