On 08/26/2013 07:37 AM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Cristian Consonni > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2013/8/25 Strainu <[email protected]>: >>> 2013/8/25 Romaine Wiki <[email protected]>: >>>> 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 -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
