Hi Erica, Thanks for the announcement, I'm glad to see some love given to Maps. Could you explain how this initiative interacts with the planned improvements from WMDE [3]?
Thank you, Strainu [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation În lun., 22 mar. 2021 la 19:11, Erica Litrenta <elitre...@wikimedia.org> a scris: > Greetings, > > This is a follow up from our last email some months ago (and a crosspost). > You may already have seen today's announcement from Legal about the > upcoming changes to the Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up that > Wikimedia > Maps are transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase > of this transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our > vector tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there > should be little to no impact to the end users’ experience. > > It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable > to support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia > Maps aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to > and learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower > those engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with > ease and low effort. > > If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you > will also find a Questions & Answers section. > > Thanks, and take care, > > Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team) > > [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator > > [1] https://tegola.io/ > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan > > -- > > ------------------------------ > > > Erica Litrenta (she/her) > > Manager, Community Relations Specialists > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
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