Il 30/apr/2014 22:22 "Tim Alder" tim@alder-digital.de ha scritto:

Hello together, I'm glad to can say that we have now an OSM-database which we can access from WMFLabs / Toollabs.

To access the database use: psql -h labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet gis -U osm This means host is labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet, database is gis and user is osm.

More infos about Toollabs are here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help Shorter version:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_toolse...

On Labs we have a maps-project with some instances: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Maps

Inside this database you can find OSM database for mapnik rendering, WIWOSM data and Wikipedia coordinates from Wikipedia-World project.

Javascript Libraries are also moved to: http://tools.wmflabs.org/osm/libs/

Kai is in the moment working to set-up the render stack.

So it's a good time for all mapnik-style-designers from Toolserver, to start now updating styles. It would be nice if these styles are updated end of May.

I'm optimistical that this can be a good restart of activities we had on Toolserver. With new developments like Wikidata, with the flexibility of labs (root-rights for everyone) and the simplicity of Tool-labs (administrated by professionals /multimaintainer projects by default) I see a bright future for maps and geo-data on this plattform.

Everything is still at the beginning, documentation have to write and lot of things have to set-up. Any help is welcome. For question and comments use this list, which could also come back to old activity-level.

Thanks Tim. It's great news. Did you notice the reference to OSM in the WMF's semi-definitive annual plan?[2] The answer is by Erik.

== New software engineers ==

«Could you be more specific about what the 14 new Software Engineers will

do?»

«Yeah, to a point. Our work in eng/prod overall is very iterative, of course, and the below is subject to internal and external feedback, real world experience and the final budget mount. At a high level, we're not currently planning to build a whole new development team (at the scale of the Flow or VisualEditor team). Here are a few goals that have informed the plan:

We're considering a small (roughly 2 person) effort focused on mapping-related infrastructure which is a shared need for lots of projects, esp. mobile. This would be similar to our current search infrastructure effort (also a 2 person effort), delivering the basics (e.g. robust, scalable OpenStreetMap tiling service) but not yet a huge amount of new functionality, rather, enabling other teams to then leverage this in building features/products (e.g. a map-based "nearby" view for mobile). Underlying hypothesis here is that with the shift to mobile overall, we'll want to leverage geo-related functionality more consistently across the board as part of new contributory funnels. We also know it's high on the community's wishlist. [...]»

( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/W... )

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikime... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/W...