Il 30/apr/2014 22:22 "Tim Alder" <t...@alder-digital.de> ha scritto: > > Hello together, > I'm glad to can say that we have now an OSM-database which we can access > from WMFLabs / Toollabs. > > To access the database use: > psql -h labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet gis -U osm > This means host is labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet, database is gis > and user is osm. > > More infos about Toollabs are here: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help > Shorter version: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_toolserver > > On Labs we have a maps-project with some instances: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Maps > > Inside this database you can find OSM database for mapnik rendering, > WIWOSM data and Wikipedia coordinates from Wikipedia-World project. > > Javascript Libraries are also moved to: > http://tools.wmflabs.org/osm/libs/ > > Kai is in the moment working to set-up the render stack. > > So it's a good time for all mapnik-style-designers from Toolserver, to > start now updating styles. It would be nice if these styles are updated > end of May. > > I'm optimistical that this can be a good restart of activities we had on > Toolserver. With new developments like Wikidata, with the flexibility of > labs (root-rights for everyone) and the simplicity of Tool-labs > (administrated by professionals /multimaintainer projects by default) I > see a bright future for maps and geo-data on this plattform. > > Everything is still at the beginning, documentation have to write and > lot of things have to set-up. Any help is welcome. > For question and comments use this list, which could also come back to > old activity-level.
Thanks Tim. It's great news. Did you notice the reference to OSM in the WMF's semi-definitive annual plan?[2] The answer is by Erik. > == New software engineers == > > «Could you be more specific about what the 14 new Software Engineers will do?» > > «Yeah, to a point. Our work in eng/prod overall is very iterative, of > course, and the below is subject to internal and external feedback, > real world experience and the final budget mount. At a high level, > we're not currently planning to build a whole new development team (at > the scale of the Flow or VisualEditor team). Here are a few goals that > have informed the plan: > > We're considering a small (roughly 2 person) effort focused on > mapping-related infrastructure which is a shared need for lots of > projects, esp. mobile. This would be similar to our current search > infrastructure effort (also a 2 person effort), delivering the basics > (e.g. robust, scalable OpenStreetMap tiling service) but not yet a > huge amount of new functionality, rather, enabling other teams to then > leverage this in building features/products (e.g. a map-based "nearby" > view for mobile). Underlying hypothesis here is that with the shift to > mobile overall, we'll want to leverage geo-related functionality more > consistently across the board as part of new contributory funnels. We > also know it's high on the community's wishlist. > [...]» ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form#New_software_engineers ) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form#Staff_and_long-term_contractors [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form
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