Hi Erika, Just wondering, has there been any uptake by OSM of WMF improvements or adaptations to OSM products and services? I'd like to encourage OSM-WMF collaboration wherever possible.
Pine On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Erika Bjune <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Svetlana, > > While we do get data from OSM, we run our own tile server called > Kartotherian <https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian>, mainly for > the following reasons: > > - OSM's infrastructure is fragile and has cache challenges > - Their datacenter is in London, which means latency becomes an issue > - OSM's rendering stack can't scale horizontally well enough to be > sure they could handle our load > - Their map style is not mobile friendly > - We require multilingual and vector tiles, which their stack can't do > (currently) > - We wanted to provide nicer map styling in general > > Hope that helps! > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Svetlana Tkachenko < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Are we even building our own tiles? I thought the 'Wikimedia maps' is >> just an interface to OSM. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------------ > Erika Bjune > Engineering Manager - Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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