On 08/26/2013 07:37 AM, Peter Gervai wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
2013/8/25 Strainu strainu10@gmail.com:
2013/8/25 Romaine Wiki romaine_wiki@yahoo.com:
Unfortunately I couldn't find any layer for Wikipedia on http://openstreetmap.org
http://osm.org/ is an example renderer. OSM is the _database_. The information is in it, and there are several renderers showing various external content.
This year at Wikimania in Hong Kong there has been a "Wikimaps" panel, where it was discussed the possibility to duplicate the OSM whole stack to serve OpenStreetMap in Wikipedia. The bottom line for me was
What should be noted, however, that we should:
- avoid to duplicate anything which is done very well by OSMF (which
is maintaining, operating and expanding OSM database), and 2) plan anything a way which helps OSM to get more user contribution, either through Notes or by direct editing (so we should make it easy for users to reach OSM edit fesatures over there.
Btw see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia
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Thanks to everyone who's been offering ideas and thoughts in this thread! Could we move to maps-l (cc'd)?
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
I recently posted to maps-l about plans for the OSM tileserver that Wikimedia is going to host: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2013-August/001305.html