Brandon Black, cc'd, is working on OSM related things from WMF Operations' side of things.
Also see: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33980 Greg <quote name="Andreas Trawoeger" date="2013-11-06" time="12:03:35 +0100"> > Hi Sumana! > > I'm the guy working at opengeoserver.org mentioned in [0]. The funding > from Wikimedia Germany for the current hardware will run out at the > end of the year. So I would like to say hi and ask about the current > WMF OSM Tileserver status? > > I wouldn't consider opengeoserver to be production ready an a > Wikipedia kind of scale, but I would love to keep the server alive > within e.g. the WikiLabs infrastructue. > > > cu andreas > > [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM_Tileserver#Future_Work > > 2013/8/22 Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]>: > > 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. > > > > -- > > Sumana Harihareswara > > Engineering Community Manager > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Maps-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
