Hello, I see two points, the first is non-technical: We should have little bridges between both projects on each continent, in each country. These bridges could be volunteers or employees of chapters (only part-time). It would be nice if we could promote OSM together with WP where it is necessary. It would be nice if would be able to give a minimum on tech. support for the community. It would be also nice to make some local events together and combine the results of different data collecting. With the maps&geo-team we should also have an central point in WMF to reduce internal friction.
The second point: The most interesting technical project I see in the moment would be to set-up vector-tiles-rendering, it would allow us to use multilingualmaps on a large style and would give us flexiblity to design different maps without the database as a bottle neck. I know it would be not easy to deploy the existing software from mapbox, but it seems possible, with some help.
Greetings Tim
Am 10.05.2014 23:59, schrieb Quim Gil:
For your information, today at the Wikimedia Hackathon some of us had the pleasure to walk, learn, and talk with Simon Poole, chairman of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
Long story short, we could talk more and collaborate better beyond the priceless personal dedication of some volunteers with links in both projects.
Let's have a chat! Online. In your opinion, which are the most important technical topics that Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap should discuss?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Quim Gil* <qgil@wikimedia.org mailto:qgil@wikimedia.org> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014 Subject: We need to organize a Tech Talk To: simon@osm
Please check with your community which are the 1-2 topics that they would like to discuss with Wikimedia Foundation engineers and the technical community in general.
Let's start with 1-2 only. If there are more, let's document all of them at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects -- OSM *must* be in our radar.
Thank you for the conversation and the walk!
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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