Hello there, long time no see:)
In the last few days I've been working on the project of getting
OpenStreetMap onto Wikimedia as outlined here:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/openstreetmap-maps-will-be-added-to-w…
Unfortunately I wasn't able to hack on it sooner (but of course other
people have been working on it too!) and the project has been somewhat
held up by the WM-DE servers being delayed.
Anyway, one thing standing between us and world domination is
rendering those static maps, I'm going to implement this but first I'd
like to get comments on *how* we'd like to do it, so I've written a
plan for doing it:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap/Static_map_generation
Would generating static images like that be fine for Wikimedia
purposes or is this totally crazy? I think it would be just fine, but
then again I did write the Cite extension so take that with a grain of
salt:)
And to spam a bit: if getting pretty OpenStreetMap maps deployed is
something you'd like to happen sooner than later head over to our
development page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap#Development
I'm working off the Bugzilla tasklist which should be an approximate
indication of stuff that needs to be done.