Wikimedia Maps

This page is where developments relating to Wikimedia maps will be announced and discussed after July of 2018. It takes over from the Map improvements 2018 page, which documented a project that added various upgrades in the first half of that year, and from the Wikimedia Maps/2015-2017 page, which preceded that.

Goals
Maintain the Wikimedia maps infrastructure including the Kartographer and Kartotherian services.

Feedback
Bug reports and requests can be made in Phabricator. Please tag tasks with #Maps.

July 2018

 * Grooming existing #maps and #maps-sprint board
 * Cataloging critical bugs
 * Ensuring reproducibility of deployment processes
 * Cataloging repositories location and ownership
 * Upgrading OS to Stretch

August 2018

 * Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
 * Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster
 * Upgrading Mapnik to 3.7.2

Useful mapping links

 * Help:Extension:Kartographer - A Help doc that gives guidance and examples for users who want to create and edit interactive wiki maps.
 * Help:VisualEditor/Maps - Help with adding and editing interactive maps using the Visual Editor.
 * Extension:Kartographer - Documentation on the MediaWiki extension that enabled the maps service.
 * Map improvements 2018 - Documents a 2018 project to shore up maps technology and make maps display in the language of the user instead of the territory mapped.