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Mapping services used?
Hi - it would be good if at least one of these two pages explained the mapping technologies being used by Kartographer. I see references to Leaflet and Mapbox within the code, so I assume it's those two, but I could be wrong. Ideally the documentation could answer the following questions: -- Yaron Koren (talk) 12:38, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What is the full set of mapping technologies used?
 * See Maps and here
 * Are there plans to expand this set in the future?
 * I hope so - the current technology will not cover all the Maps/Future Plans, and I do hope to grow it.
 * Are the code, and the map data, both completely free/libre to use? (I'm assuming yes, but it would be good for the documentation to state it.)
 * Of course - Kartotherian license apache 2.0, OSM data is under ODBL.
 * When a map is generated, which parts (of the code and data) come from the MediaWiki installation, and which parts come from outside services? (This is a privacy concern to some.)
 * The tiles are generated by Kartotherian service that fully runs on WMF production servers. The data is downloaded every day from OSM. So there is no privacy issues on tile side.
 * WikiVoyage currently uses wmflabs-generated layers on top of kartotherian-generated maps, plus NL-wikivoyage still uses wmflabs tiles (which violates our privacy policy). Since the new maps don't offer as much details as a more mature but less salable and stable service, some community members are understandably not very happy to migrate right away, despite the privacy issues. See this discussion.
 * How does OpenStreetMap fit into the whole thing, if at all?
 * OSM is the main source of the data. Eventually I hope we will add more interesting data sources like Wikidata (for localization and linking to articles)
 * Do points of interest (POIs) come exclusively from OSM, or from within the wiki, or both, or somewhere else?
 * Both. At this point, there are almost no POIs from OSM on our maps except a few transportation ones. WikiVoyage adds them directly from the articles.
 * , answered inline. --Yurik (talk) 11:10, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * This is all very good to know, although really I would like to see all this information get added to the documentation; I'm sure many people will have these same questions. If you want, I can try adding it in - just let me know. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:12, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , sure, any help would be great. It's hard to edit from a phone)) --Yurik (talk) 13:17, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, I just added some of this information to the page; hopefully what I added is accurate. And I modified some of the rest as well. I still think the "Goals" section needs work - it's not clear which goals have been met already, and which haven't - but I don't know enough to feel comfortable changing it. Yaron Koren (talk) 20:31, 1 April 2016 (UTC)