Talk:Wikimedia Maps


 * I brought this to the attention of WM IT, which at some point will also become the Italian chapter for OSM, thanks to the efforts of User:Cortesi and others. HTH, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:38, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Wishlist

 * Proposed Bot to add Wikipedia/Wikidata tags to OSM features.
 * Local and regional bridges between both projects in order to collaborate in activities and events.
 * Wikimedia CH plans.
 * Log in to OSM with Wikimedia credentials.
 * Clarify licensing situation of OSM data used in Wikimedia. (T105090 -- seems to be ok)
 * Open-Wikidata-map.
 * A page to jot down use cases for historical maps and geodata (Susannaanas)

Controversial borders
Hi,

I noticed some controversial borders at https://maps.wikimedia.org :
 * The border between Crimea and Kherson is shown as international, which is the Russian Federation POV.
 * South Ossetia and Abkhazia are shown as countries, which is the Russian Federation POV.
 * The border of Kosovo looks like a border of an independent country (Kosovan POV), but it doesn't have a country name (weird POV ;) ).
 * As a technically opposite example, there's no border in the middle of Cyprus (Greek POV), but there is a label for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Turkish POV).
 * The border between Israel and Syria is shown according to the Israeli POV.

There are possibly more issues of this kind.

Wikipedias usually show maps of disputed territories quite well. For example, maps of Russia and Ukraine usually show Crimea in a special color - even in the Russian Wikipedia.

I understand that at the moment Wikimedia's maps service probably just takes whatever OSM provides, but ideally it should do something similar to what the Wikipedias do and be as neutral as possible.

(I tried to be as neutral as I could in this post ;) ) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

How to submit patches?
It's a bit unclear from the page, but it looks like https://maps.wikimedia.org/ is run by kartotherian? I've whipped up a provisional patch for hi-dpi/retina display support but can't submit it via 'git review' as there's no .gitreview in the repo. --Brion Vibber (WMF) (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It's all in GitHub. Also, the index.html you're probably trying to edit is just an example, we're not intending it to ever be a full-featured map:) Max Semenik (talk) 20:35, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Missing fonts
It seems the map server is missing some fonts to render characters of place names in what I think is Georgia: https://maps.wikimedia.org/#9/41.8297/44.2474 —Galaktos (talk) 21:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Its a Unicode bug in Mapnik, tracked by T108846. --Yurik (talk) 21:52, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. —Galaktos (talk) 22:09, 17 September 2015 (UTC)