Hi Erik! Thats excellent news :-))
I would suggest to meet in Berlin. Wikimedia Germany is financing the current toolserver infrastructure, could organize a location and we could team up with the folks from Wikidata. At Wikicon 2012 we made a wish list of things we would like to get implemented: - Common way to store geodata in Wikipedia - Better OSM integration - Import of GeoTiff [0] and Exif GPS [1] Tagging Data - World file [2] support I'm currently working on how to integrate Landsat [3] data. The current Landsat 7 satellite is damaged and has pretty outdated sensors. But the upcoming Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) mission will provide freely availably medium resolution (15-60m/pixel) pictures of every place of the earth in 16 days interval which could be a good fit for Wikipedia. cu andreas [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotiff [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > Hi folks, > > it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting > some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production > to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but > obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the > recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will > probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the > mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ). > > To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing > volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a > face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related > development work sometime around Feb/March 2013. > > WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and > bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are > there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in > Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I > know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other > options as well. > > Cheers, > Erik > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >
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