Greetings,
This is a follow up from our last email some months ago (and a crosspost). You may already have seen today's announcement from Legal about the upcoming changes to the Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that Wikimedia Maps are transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase of this transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our vector tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there should be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.
It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease and low effort.
If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you will also find a Questions & Answers section.
Thanks, and take care,
Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator
[1] https://tegola.io/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
Hi Erica,
Thanks for the announcement, I'm glad to see some love given to Maps. Could you explain how this initiative interacts with the planned improvements from WMDE [3]?
Thank you, Strainu
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation
În lun., 22 mar. 2021 la 19:11, Erica Litrenta elitrenta@wikimedia.org a scris:
Greetings,
This is a follow up from our last email some months ago (and a crosspost). You may already have seen today's announcement from Legal about the upcoming changes to the Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that Wikimedia Maps are transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase of this transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our vector tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there should be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.
It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease and low effort.
If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you will also find a Questions & Answers section.
Thanks, and take care,
Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator
[1] https://tegola.io/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
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Erica Litrenta (she/her)
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hi Strainu,
I am a Product Manager at WMF. To answer your question, the Maps Modernization effort doesn't interact much with the WMDE planned improvements that you mentioned.
The Maps Modernization plan addresses more infrastructure needs. With its completion, it will provide the maintainers of the maps infrastructure with better monitoring, as an example. This will help better prevent and address outages and ensure the reliability of maps as a service.
I believe the WMDE improvements are more client-facing or user-facing needs. Things like allowing for users to save their default map view or better interactive maps. WMF has kept in contact with the Technical Wishes team but I believe this work does not directly impact the planned improvements.
Best, Seve
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 2:01 PM Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Erica,
Thanks for the announcement, I'm glad to see some love given to Maps. Could you explain how this initiative interacts with the planned improvements from WMDE [3]?
Thank you, Strainu
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation
În lun., 22 mar. 2021 la 19:11, Erica Litrenta elitrenta@wikimedia.org a scris:
Greetings,
This is a follow up from our last email some months ago (and a crosspost). You may already have seen today's announcement from Legal about the upcoming changes to the Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that Wikimedia Maps are transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase of this transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our vector tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there should be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.
It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease and low effort.
If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you will also find a Questions & Answers section.
Thanks, and take care,
Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator
[1] https://tegola.io/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan
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Erica Litrenta (she/her)
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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