Il 30/apr/2014 22:22 "Tim Alder" <tim(a)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_tools…
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/…
)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…