AMAZING! After a decade this has become a reality to have fully localized world maps! Naveen what is the policy on using these tiles, can we include it in openstreetmap.in ?

Thanks to Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration>for working on Maps. This feature enhancement is part of "2017 Community Wishlist Survey". *Where do the map labels come from?* The Wikimedia mapping service gets its map data from the open-source mapping project OpenStreetMap <https://www.openstreetmap.org/>. Those labels are created by OpenStreetMap volunteers. Which means that what labels are available for which languages varies from location to location and language to language, depending on what the volunteers have entered *What can you do if labels are missing?* If a particular label isn’t available in the language you need, you can add the label in OpenStreetMap. See the screenshot, which shows the interface for the process: you find the map feature you want to label, log in, enter Edit mode, select the feature, select your language from a menu, add the label, and upload it. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_18,_2018,_Specia… Thanks, Naveen Francis <http://wikibooks.in> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas &lt;dsvyas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

For some reason, it is showing names with different spellings instead of the current spelling on OSM. Any idea why? Subhashish On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Naveen Francis &lt;naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote:

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Arun Ganesh &lt;arun.planemad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I meant the place names. It is not older names but incorrect/non-standard spellings. Could be older data as you have mentioned.

Good Sighting Ashwin, We must show correct borders as per GoI's recognition. Regards, Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 12:30 Ashwin Baindur, &lt;ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hello, Joe Matazzoni (cc-ed) is the Product Manager for the maps improvement work, and wanted to respond on this thread. Unfortunately, none of his messages got through (most likely stuck in the moderation queue), and he wanted me to forward this on his behalf. Please find Joe's original message below, and you can send follow up questions directly to him. Prior apologies for the possible repeats of this that may hit the list at some point. Thanks Runa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Begin forwarded message: *From: *Joe Matazzoni &lt;jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org&gt; *Subject: **[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.* *Date: *April 26, 2018 at 3:03:47 PM PDT *To: *Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi Wikimediaindia-l, I’m the product manager for Map Improvements 2018 [1], at the Wikimedia Foundation. I’m glad to see enthusiasm for internationalized maps! I have answers for a few of your questions. Naveen muses: Gladly. Our maps terms of use [2] state that we do allow use by third parties, though there is a concern about over-use, so we request that third parties "please respect our limited services and resources.” There are also some specific requests about providing info, in case we need to get in touch with you, and a caveat that: We reserve the right to discontinue or change our service, block or limit certain users or applications, or take other measures in cases at our sole discretion at any time without notice. So this is something that may or may not work for you, depending on how large and intensive your map service is. Please have a look at the terms or use if you’re interested in proceeding. In answer to Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas’ question about seeing a mix of different languages, Naveen is correct to quote the Special Update on Map Internationalization [3], which is the best source of information on how this all works. I encourage anyone interested to have a look. You may also wish to experiment with internationalized maps on testwiki or testwiki2 [4], where the features are currently working. And here is a page on testwiki2 that shows examples [5]. Later today, I’ll post a deeper dive into how our service interacts with OpenStreetMap data, and some of the anomalies that can arise from that interaction. So please give internationalized maps a try and leave comments on the project talk page [6]. Depending on the types of comments we get in the next few weeks, we hope to be able to release internationalized maps to all Wikipedias in the next month or so. Yours, Joe [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018 [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#April_18,_2018,_Specia… [4] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. [5] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018 _____________________ *Joe Matazzoni* Product Manager, Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Naveen Francis &lt;naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: -- Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors) Wikimedia Foundation

+1 Ashwin, Dhaval S. Vyas,Anamdas Regards U:Suyash.dwivedi On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Manoj Khurana &lt;hello(a)manojkhurana.com&gt; wrote: --

Arun, I think the output of your your effort meets the requirement. What matters is that the Indic language wikis satisfy government regulations. The details of who claims what can be provided in an article. How to deploy this solution of yours or how to generate a vector file stored locally in the Wikipedia rather than in Commons, i.e. what form will be the final solution ia an issue that needs to be given thought by people who know more than me. On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:58 PM, Joe Matazzoni &lt;jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------

To match the Govt reference map of correct boundaries, one would need to hide disputed borders, and show extra claimed areas as a part of India. This is not easy to do on the tiles and the problem has been explained in detail on the task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113008#4177170 Arun, I think the output of your your effort meets the requirement. What To have this customization built into the mapframe map would need the help of the WMF engineers on the best way to implement. Have shared my demo on phabricator, so will just have to wait.

Also made a demo with the language selector + the maps to switch the language easily: https://jsfiddle.net/planemad/Lcvp5p7x/ Thank you Santosh for the ULS ;)