Hello,
here the next technical point on my wish-list:
It would be nice to make the OSM-software-stack more flexible and easier
to use for external usage. With software-stack I mean the website,
database, editors, API and rendering. It should be possible to handle
different data-source like layers.
(This wish comes in a discussion with Tim Water from OpenHistoMap.)
We have in Wikipedia the problem that we want to handle geodata
that are out of scope of OSM. One kind of objects are historical data
handled by OHM, and it will be very easy to link these objects with
Wikidata, like we are doing it with our project WIWOSM.
Other kind of objects are fuzzy geometries like the Alps, the habitat of
a species, ... . For this kind of objects we would like to have the same
software stack than for OSM and OHM (editor, database, API, ...).
I would give this idea a working title: Open-Wikidata-map.
For this project we would need an easy to maintain software stack and
users should contribute with existing editors.
Setup OSM-clones for different use-cases should be so easy like to
install a mediawiki, perhaps it could be like MediaWiki-Vagrant.
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(a)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
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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