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Tim Waters | 25 Apr 2013 15:38
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(Re-)introducing Wikimaps

Hi folks,

Just a quick introduction.
I am also involved with historical maps,  OpenStreetMap and the OHM
project in general

I'm also the developer behind mapwarper.net  - I've chatted with
Maarten and a couple of others from wikimedia in the past at assorted
conferences about effectively putting mapwarper on the wikimedia
toolservers - and am glad that this project seems to be gathering some
interested again.

Please do count me in for any help you may need to install this code
(https://github.com/timwaters/mapwarper) , any questions and anything
else you may encounter if you choose to go ahead with using mapwarper.

Cheers,

Tim Waters

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Susanna Ånäs | 16 Apr 2013 22:50
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(Re-)introducing Wikimaps

Hi Everyone!

My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have a cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the Wikimaps environment. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english

Wikimaps was introduced as a concept by Maarten Dammers http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps. The idea is to combine environments in Wikimedia to form a maps environment for scanned (historical) maps. I introduced the idea at GLAM-Wiki in London and I have my presentation slides on Sideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/susannaanas/glam-wiki-wikimaps.

A test environment is planned to be put up for testing for the Amsterdam Hackathon, more info to follow. Let's put up a Wikimaps page in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps and gather material there (Feel free to start, I have not yet had the time :)

Please let's discuss the project on this list!

Nice to know all of you!

Best regards,
Susanna
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Catrin Schoneville | 3 Apr 2013 12:45
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Crowd-Beitrag in der SZ

Hallo zusammen,

gerade einen Artikel aus der SZ gefunden. OSM wird genannt - wen es interessiert (leider nur als pdf)....

Grüße! Catrin.






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Marlen Caemmerer | 2 Apr 2013 10:21
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Re: IP Renumbering of the complete Toolserver cluster (fwd)

Hello,

unfortunatelly maintenances regarding this topic are not finished yet.
It turned out configuring both IP ranges on the head nodes / balancers is way 
to complicated.
Additionally not all other hosts have been renumbered.

Thats why I announce the maintenance of the following hosts for

tomorrow 1800 UTC - 2100 UTC

hemlock.toolserver.org.
clematis.toolserver.org.
willow.toolserver.org.
hawthorn.toolserver.org.
submit.toolserver.org.
daphne.toolserver.org.

On Friday I will do a really big maintenance and renumber the head nodes 
(damiana & turnera) and the web servers (ortelius & wolfsbane)

1900 UTC - 2359 UTC (hope to not need this window completely)

Since a lot of testing has to be done I really appreciate any help you can give 
here.

Kind regards
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Marlen Caemmerer | 22 Mar 2013 10:06
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IP Renumbering of the complete Toolserver cluster

Hello,

Toolserver needs a complete change of the officially assigned IP addresses.
Every accessible service will be involved.

This involves several maintenances that will cause interruptions.
The maintenances will also cause interuptions for OSM.

To see if everything comes up correctly reboots will be necessary on all regarding servers.

I will start with parallel IP setup at the load balancers/head nodes damiana and turnera.

I will do this next Thursday, 28th March 20-22 h UTC.

The next maintenances will involve the login servers, web and mail servers.
They will happen at Friday, 29th March 20 - 22h UTC and Sunday, 31th March 20 - 22h UTC.

I hope everything will work after that.

Cheers
 	nosy/Marlen

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Tim Alder | 13 Mar 2013 22:23
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What's going on

Hello,
we had a meeting[1] where we talk about map related stuff. There were 
two groups of things we want to move from toolserver to Wikimedia 
foundation infrastructure, one is production system the other is all the 
other beautiful experimental stuff:

*Production system: This system will be maintained by the mobile team 
together with operations. The render stack will be designed for max. 
output and high stability. So the actual plan is to have four render 
servers (Mapnik/mod-tile) using shared object storage(Ceph) for 
metatiles and a caching layer in front of them (Varnish).
At beginning the most import style is OSM-default. Other styles like 
OSM-no-labels, multilingual styles, Wikiminiatlas-style and hikebikemap 
comes perhaps later.

*Experimental system: For this we will use Wikilabs together with an 
external OSM-database server. The database layout will be the same as on 
toolserver. The database server will take longer (we calculate with 
around 2 months and then more time to move) so we will use on toolserver 
the new server for some time.

An other important decisions at this meeting was that we want to try to 
merge Wikiminiatlas(WMA) and OSM-Gadget. We meet us on neutral ground, 
which means we use a new implementation of the WMA in Leaflet. This will 
brings together the good mediawiki integration of WMA with a modern user 
interface over a popular framework like we had it with OSM-Gadget. There 
will be two ways to see the map, you can have Wikipedia-textlabels on a 
map without labels (like in WMA) or you can see Wikipedia-POIs as little 
icons on a OSM-map with text (like in OSM-Gadget). Leaflet will also be 
smaller and faster than Openlayers.
We will send a mail if we have something to show and then any help and 
comments are welcome.

Greetings Tim

[1]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/Wikimedia_Mapping_Event_2013

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Florian LAINEZ | 11 Jan 2013 11:51
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[Maps-1] wiki travel released soon

Hello,
I'm Florian, a french OpenStreetMap contributor.
I see that wiki voyage will be soon launched, and it's definitely a maps oriented project.

I noticed that the geographical coordinates are displayed top right-hand corner but for very few articles (ex. New-York OK but Stuttgart no).
On every page there is a link to the wikipedia article: [[Wikipedia:Stuttgart]]
And as you probably know most of the wikipedia pages are already geolocated with their coordinate and also with their OpenStreetMap's object.

Suggested action: import wikipedia coordinates to wiki voyage. I think their is no maintenance problem because geographical places usually don't move ^^

Other topic: their no mini-map top right-hand corner next to the coordinates as on wikipedia.

Least but not last: their is a lot of pointed out places within the pages but none of them are geolocated
ex.: Tour Eiffel and its Parc du Champ de Mars, Les Invalides, Musée d'Orsay
This definitely lacks of precision ...

So I think their is a lot to do, I regret not to have the technical skills to do it :(

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<div><div>
<div>Hello,<br>
</div>
<div>I'm Florian, a french OpenStreetMap contributor.<br>
</div>
<div>I see that wiki voyage will be soon launched, and it's definitely a maps oriented project.<br><br>
</div>
<div>I noticed that the geographical coordinates are displayed top right-hand corner but for very few articles (ex. <a href="http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/New_York_City">New-York</a> OK but <a href="http://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a> no).<br>
</div>
<div>On every page there is a link to the wikipedia article: [[Wikipedia:Stuttgart]]<br>
</div>
</div></div>And as you probably know most of the wikipedia pages are already geolocated with their coordinate and also with their OpenStreetMap's object.<br><br>
</div>Suggested action: import wikipedia coordinates to wiki voyage. I think their is no maintenance problem because geographical places usually don't move ^^<br><div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Other topic: their no mini-map top right-hand corner next to the coordinates as on wikipedia.<br><br>
</div>
<div>Least but not last: their is a lot of pointed out places within the pages but none of them are geolocated<br>
</div>
<div>ex.: Tour Eiffel and its Parc du Champ de Mars, Les Invalides, Mus&eacute;e d'Orsay</div>

<div>This definitely lacks of precision ...<br><br>
</div>
<div>So I think their is a lot to do, I regret not to have the technical skills to do it :(<br><br>
</div>
<div>regards<br>
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Marlen Caemmerer | 18 Dec 2012 21:36
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Datacenter Maintenance tomorrow

Hello,

tomorrow will be hardware maintenance for toolserver.
It will be between 11 am - 20 pm UTC.

Several hosts may be offline for a little while during this time - especially daphne (s4) and hyacinth (s3,
s6 and s7). 
They get some hardware replacements.

The OSM host ptolemy might go offline for new hardware, too.

Cheers
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Andreas Trawoeger | 28 Nov 2012 11:28

Re: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

Hi Erik!

Thats excellent news :-))

I would suggest to meet in Berlin. Wikimedia Germany is financing the current toolserver infrastructure, could organize a location and we could team up with the folks from Wikidata.

At  Wikicon 2012 we made a wish list of things we would like to get implemented:
- Common way to store geodata in Wikipedia
- Better OSM integration
- Import of GeoTiff [0] and Exif GPS [1] Tagging Data
- World file [2] support

I'm currently working on how to integrate Landsat [3] data. The current Landsat 7 satellite is damaged and has pretty outdated sensors. But the upcoming Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) mission will provide freely availably medium resolution (15-60m/pixel) pictures of every place of the earth in 16 days interval which could be a good fit for Wikipedia.

cu andreas


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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat


2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <erik <at> wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,

it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).

To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.

WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.

Cheers,
Erik


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<div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Hi Erik!<br><br>Thats excellent news :-))<br><br>I would suggest to meet in Berlin. Wikimedia Germany is financing the current toolserver infrastructure, could organize a location and we could team up with the folks from Wikidata.<br><br>At&nbsp; Wikicon 2012 we made a wish list of things we would like to get implemented:<br>- Common way to store geodata in Wikipedia<br>- Better OSM integration<br>- Import of GeoTiff [0] and Exif GPS [1] Tagging Data<br>- World file [2] support<br><br>I'm currently working on how to integrate Landsat [3] data. The current Landsat 7 satellite is damaged and has pretty outdated sensors. But the upcoming  Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) mission will provide freely availably medium resolution (15-60m/pixel) pictures of every place of the earth in 16 days interval which could be a good fit for Wikipedia.<br><br>cu andreas<br><br><br>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotiff" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotiff</a><br>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif</a><br>

[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat</a><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:erik@..." target="_blank">erik <at> wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote">Hi folks,<br><br>
it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting<br>
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production<br>
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but<br>
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the<br>
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will<br>
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the<br>
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (<br><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata</a> ).<br><br>
To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing<br>
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a<br>
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related<br>
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.<br><br>
WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and<br>
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are<br>
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in<br>
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I<br>
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other<br>
options as well.<br><br>
Cheers,<br>
Erik<br><span><br><br>
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Erik Moeller | 28 Nov 2012 03:49
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Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

Hi folks,

it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).

To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.

WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.

Cheers,
Erik

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Tim Alder | 2 Nov 2012 22:45
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Updates in OSM-Gadget

Hello,
there are some new features in OSM-Gadget:
*As additional layer we support the tiles from Opengeoserver.at.
This service combines satellite and aerial images from different 
sources[1]. Best image quality is available in parts of Austria and 
Bavaria. The primary aim of Opengeoserver is to be a mapping tool for 
OSM. Please respect that if have not the server power of Google maps, 
buts a beginning.
The images looks interesting together with the transparent tiles we are 
using for multilingual rendering and with our hillshading.

*For a longer time is also a public transport layer (ÖPNV-Karte) 
available.

*OSM-Gadget is running now Openlayers 2.12 in a minimized version, so it 
needs only 400kB instead of 1MB at the first time.

Greetings Tim alias Kolossos

[1]http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lang=de&uselang=de&params=49.3775_N_10.178888888889_E_region%3ADE-BY_type%3Acity%2810930%29&title=Rothenburg_ob_der_Tauber&zoom=10&lat=50.92679&lon=14.22595&layers=00000B0TFFTF
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