Current state of affairs:
https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ is up and
running, and should have all the data soon. It uses mapbox stack, which
means that it generates vector data tiles, and creates a PNG tiles on the
fly. This also means that in a few days, you will be able to view WebGL
based maps there too - rendered on the browser, with multiple styles, and
rotatable.
The community needs this service, and has already built a large number of
amazing projects even without the production-level vector service. Examples
include
* atlas-style drill-down map
<http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/wikipedia-clustermap_36725>
(umap, see more
info <http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/>)
* Wikidata-based map of pages by class
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php?lang=en>,
e.g. all rollercoasters
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/kml-on-ol.php?lang=en&uselang=en&zoom=3&lat=0&lon=0&classes=204832>
.
* There is an amazing presentation
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.pdf> (pdf) by
Kolossos (Tim Adler), that gives many more examples of the community-built
map services and projects (OpenOffice format
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.odp>)
P.S. Tomasz, it's Yuri, not Yuvi, and don't blame IRC auto-complete :)
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey - yes, we're workig on serving map tiles. Both
raster and MapBox
vectors. Our current demo implementation is at
https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ - only raster tiles ATM, vectors coming
in 1-2 days. The main problem, however, is budgeting - yet if we get very
little hardware, concentrating on maps for apps might even be a reasonable
option as apps traffic might be lower than if we exposed maps to all web
users. Getting no bugdet at all is also a possible outcome, though.
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