Events/Wikimedia Mapping Event 2013

During Open Source Days 2013 in Copenhagen on March 9 and 10, we will have a hacking session dedicated to bringing OpenStreetMaps to Wikipedia.

Goal
Have horizontally scaled tile servers roughly working on labs within two weeks after the OSM event, as an important step towards a deployment to the WMF cluster.

Communications

 * Etherpad: Mobile team/Mobile web/Etherpad/WMF OSM Hack Session 2013
 * IRC: #osm-wmf-hacksession

Topics

 * Running an OSM copy on Wikimedia cluster (hacking)
 * Access to WMF project database replicas on WMF Labs
 * Making OSM more scalable (hacking)
 * OSM maps localization (discussion)
 * OSM migration from toolserver to WMF labs; currently servering OSM and WM communities (discussion)
 * Add more topics!

Important services inside Wikipedia

 * Geohack (70% of the users use this / not directly related with OSM)


 * OSM-Gadget
 * Layers
 * OSM default style (redundant to OSM)
 * OSM default style from OSM.org (as fallback)
 * Hikebike (very popular service from toolserver, 70% requested tiles are going to this style. Based on OSM. Runs in the moment on Mapnik 0.7. Performance?)
 * Public Transport (external service. Nice but perhaps not so important. Based on OSM. )
 * Satellite (external service from http://opengeoserver.org/ . Sponsort by Wikimedia Germany. Nice, but need in my eyes a wider base. Original planed a sources for OSM mappers.)
 * Germany Style (alternative colors. Not so important. Redundant with osm.de.)
 * Overlays
 * Wikipedia-World (Wikipedia-POIs as KML generated by PostGIS/PHP, 4 database tables for data reduction at lower zoomlevels. Lot of additional features. Updated all 2-3 months.)
 * WIWOSM (To produce this geoJSON files we need access to OSM database and for interwikilinks to Wikipedia/Wikidata DB. Updated each night. Update need 3h.)
 * Marker (simply JavaScript)
 * hillshading (Static tiles, rendering need many weeks. coverage only ~70% of the world, but als oceans.)


 * We have brute-force multilingual maps as transparent layer on toolserver (activated in ru.wp) but I would prefer to use the new system from Jopchen Topf.
 * OSM-no-label we will need this layer also as base layer for future multilingualmaps.


 * WikiMiniAtlas
 * Layers
 * Tiles (OSM, different other sources)
 * LANDSAT
 * Other solar system bodies (NASA satellite imagery)
 * Client-side rendered JSON tiles (OSM)
 * Overlays
 * Wikipedia POIs (render labels in all languages so doesn't need multilingual map)
 * WIWOSM
 * Embedded KML data from Wikipedia articles (en:Template:Attached KML)
 * 3D Buildings


 * Merger of OSM Gadget (O) and WikiMiniAtlas (W)
 * WIWOSM (O/W)
 * OSM default style (O)
 * Low contrast base style (W)
 * Icon markers (O)
 * Text labels (W)
 * Multilingual map, default style no-labels + overlays
 * Extra styles (W)
 * Satellite (O:OpenGeoserver,W:LANDSAT) (O)
 * Hillshading (O)
 * 3D Buildings (W)
 * Thumbnails Commons (W)
 * List articles (W)
 * Size comparison (W)
 * Embedded frame (O) and Floating frame (W)


 * MobilApp

other tools
We have also other tools for OSM on Toolserver so we need a place on WikimediaLabs. From the different styles seems the black&white style the most important style for external usage.

Ideas for new services

 * re-design OSM-Gadget to make it cleaner, faster, nicer. But for this we need to know how people use our service and what they like.
 * Retina-style for display of modern smartphones it would be nice to scale everything by factor 2. Also important to make some labels in Asia better readable.
 * Vector layers and 3D-vector data
 * perhaps longrunning cronjobs with OSM data on WMlabs
 * Overlay like WIWOSM but independent from OSM for things that are onle interessting for Wikipedia
 * HistoricOSM as overlay
 * WikiDATA-stuff with geodata

Requirements
Under the threat of conference Wi-Fi, please make sure that you already have this stuff checked out:
 * Main OSM repo (SVN): http://svn.openstreetmap.org
 * For those who prefer Git, there is also a mirror that covers most of the relevant projects: https://github.com/openstreetmap
 * WMF puppet repository (Git): ssh://&lt;username>@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/puppet.git or, if you don't have an account, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/puppet
 * WikiMiniAtlas repo :-) https://github.com/dschwen/wikiminiatlas

Who's coming

 * Max Semenik (talk)
 * Arthur Richards (talk)
 * Faidon Liambotis
 * Kai Krueger
 * Tim Alder
 * Katie Filbert
 * Daniel Schwen (talk)