Hello, I see two points, the first is non-technical: We should have little bridges between both projects on each continent, in each country. These bridges could be volunteers or employees of chapters (only part-time). It would be nice if we could promote OSM together with WP where it is necessary. It would be nice if would be able to give a minimum on tech. support for the community. It would be also nice to make some local events together and combine the results of different data collecting. With the maps&geo-team we should also have an central point in WMF to reduce internal friction.
The second point: The most interesting technical project I see in the moment would be to set-up vector-tiles-rendering, it would allow us to use multilingualmaps on a large style and would give us flexiblity to design different maps without the database as a bottle neck. I know it would be not easy to deploy the existing software from mapbox, but it seems possible, with some help. Greetings Tim Am 10.05.2014 23:59, schrieb Quim Gil: > For your information, today at the Wikimedia Hackathon some of us had > the pleasure to walk, learn, and talk with Simon Poole, chairman of the > OpenStreetMap Foundation. > > Long story short, we could talk more and collaborate better beyond the > priceless personal dedication of some volunteers with links in both > projects. > > Let's have a chat! Online. In your opinion, which are the most important > technical topics that Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap should discuss? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Quim Gil* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014 > Subject: We need to organize a Tech Talk > To: simon@osm > > Please check with your community which are the 1-2 topics that they > would like to discuss with Wikimedia Foundation engineers and the > technical community in general. > > Let's start with 1-2 only. If there are more, let's document all of them > at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap > > See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects -- OSM *must* > be in our radar. > > Thank you for the conversation and the walk! > > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
