[Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 08/26/2013 07:37 AM, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Cristian Consonni
> <kikkocristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/8/25 Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com>:
>>> 2013/8/25 Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki at yahoo.com>:
>>>> Unfortunately I couldn't find any layer for Wikipedia on http://openstreetmap.org
> 
> http://osm.org/ is an example renderer. OSM is the _database_. The
> information is in it, and there are several renderers showing various
> external content.
> 
>> This year at Wikimania in Hong Kong there has been a "Wikimaps" panel,
>> where it was discussed the possibility to duplicate the OSM whole
>> stack to serve OpenStreetMap in Wikipedia. The bottom line for me was
> 
> What should be noted, however, that we should:
> 1) avoid to duplicate anything which is done very well by OSMF (which
> is maintaining, operating and expanding OSM database), and
> 2) plan anything a way which helps OSM to get more user contribution,
> either through Notes or by direct editing (so we should make it easy
> for users to reach OSM edit fesatures over there.
> 
> Btw see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia
> 
> g

Thanks to everyone who's been offering ideas and thoughts in this
thread! Could we move to maps-l (cc'd)?

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l

I recently posted to maps-l about plans for the OSM tileserver that
Wikimedia is going to host:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2013-August/001305.html

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation