Hello, here the next technical point on my wish-list: It would be nice to make the OSM-software-stack more flexible and easier to use for external usage. With software-stack I mean the website, database, editors, API and rendering. It should be possible to handle different data-source like layers.
(This wish comes in a discussion with Tim Water from OpenHistoMap.) We have in Wikipedia the problem that we want to handle geodata that are out of scope of OSM. One kind of objects are historical data handled by OHM, and it will be very easy to link these objects with Wikidata, like we are doing it with our project WIWOSM. Other kind of objects are fuzzy geometries like the Alps, the habitat of a species, ... . For this kind of objects we would like to have the same software stack than for OSM and OHM (editor, database, API, ...). I would give this idea a working title: Open-Wikidata-map. For this project we would need an easy to maintain software stack and users should contribute with existing editors. Setup OSM-clones for different use-cases should be so easy like to install a mediawiki, perhaps it could be like MediaWiki-Vagrant. 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* <q...@wikimedia.org <mailto:q...@wikimedia.org>> > 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 > Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
