Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > Now that is a special requirement! Could you generate static HTML > > that uses <table> and <div> to line up some static PNG tiles in a > > static HTML page? Would this also solve the problem for browsers > > without JavaScript? > > Right now you can get a static dump + image dump and produce a fully > working copy of a Wikimedia wiki. If all the maps relied on map tiles > hosted somewhere else that would break a lot of things for the static > dump content wise.
I would have to learn more about how these static dumps are made. The Swedish Wikipedia (300,000 articles) contains no uploaded images. It fetches all images from Wikimedia Commons that contains 4 million files. Does a static dump of sv.wikipedia require a complete copy of Wikimedia Commons? Or can you get a separate dump of only the necessary images? Could the same selection work for map tiles? We really don't want a tile generator to "upload" every tile through a MediaWiki. :-) Since these static dumps were produced in June 2008, perhaps this system doesn't need to be our top priority. It is also possible, if the live maps for a city is at z=12, the static dump could show maps at z=8 thus saving lots of space by omitting the tiles for deeper zoom levels. After all, a static dump is already a compromise. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
