Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: > Regarding the people interested in the map project: Because the > project just started, it won't be too useful to add more people > to the group before we have buyed the servers, brought them to > our data center in Amsterdam and set up a base system.
There's a lot more to be done, and a lot more going on with maps in Wikipedia than just the new map toolserver. The 15,000 euro from WMDE is another step forward, but not the first and not the last. The existing toolserver with the GeoHack and WikiMiniAtlas applications represents a series of previous steps forward. The Berlin meetup is one chance for those interested in all of these little projects to see each other, learn about recent advances, and discuss how to continue from here. Another such chance is the State of the Map conference in July. The deadline for SOTM paper submissions is May 3. Enough time to get ideas in Berlin and write up a synopsis for SOTM. Setting up the map toolserver will be important. But other people can do other things in the same time. For example, we will have to consider how the current coordinate links in Wikipedia articles should be changed to inline map presentations. Should they fit in infoboxes? We still have no system for interwiki synchronization of coordinates. Different languages of Wikipedia can specify different coordinates for the same city, with different precision. To what extent does OSM link back to Wikipedia, and how should that be improved? I recently introduced WikiMiniAtlas in the Swedish Wikipedia, and initiated a translation of the GeoHack page into Norwegian (bokmål and nynorsk). Yesterday, the page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap was translated into Swedish and Russian. At the Berlin meet-up we can inspire someone to do such things for other languages of Wikipedia. Last year, Inge Wallin and I applied for funds for a Swedish tile server. The hardware is being installed now. Our primary interest is to render OSM in the style of Swedish cartography. But we also need to know how this can best be coordinated with the German map toolserver and other resources. So, "the map project" is a lot bigger than the map toolserver. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
