On 08/22/2013 03:47 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Hi folks! I am the Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia > Foundation, which means I'm a liaison for people who want to improve the > technical capabilities of our projects. I spoke with a few of you > offlist (including at Wikimania) about maps and Wikimedia. While I'm > still getting up to speed on the proposals and tools people have made, I > wanted to give you an update regarding what's happening with Wikimedia's > planned OpenStreetMap tileserver. > > We know that we will set up a production tileserver. That is, Wikimedia > plans to have an OpenStreetMap tileserver, in production (that is, fully > supported by our Operations department and with uptime expectations > similar to those for our main sites). We need this not only for the > tools community but also for use in our official mobile apps. Brandon > Black is the contact for this. He is a member of the Operations team at > WMF. In order to set up a production-level tileserver, we will also need > a production OSM database, so he is working on figuring out how best to > grab that data from the official OSM database regularly (I am > oversimplifying here). > > Brandon has already started on the project of setting up the production > tileserver. I know that he will be posting regular updates at > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM_Tileserver but he is still in > the investigation and architecture phase so he does not have a timeline > yet. I'm sorry, I know that is frustrating. > > Very soon after we have the production tileserver running, we plan to > replicate that OSM database to Wikimedia Labs for use on Tool Labs, or > do similar SQL import magic. People using Labs will be able to draw > data directly from that replica, and will be able to grab tiles from the > production tileserver. I'm the contact on this but since Coren > (Marc-Andre Pelletier) is the domain expert on this particular bit of > database replication, please go ahead and include both of us on any > questions. > > Thanks, all.
Maps-l folks: just a quick update saying that Brandon is still working on setting up the production tileserver, has been posting updates at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM_Tileserver , and sorry, it isn't up yet. I am about to start a sabbatical and will not be onlist; please feel free to ask Quim Gil <[email protected]> for any help or about any concerns you have regarding Wikimedia-related tech! Thanks; looking forward to coming back in January. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
