Wikimore

Start:	2018-07-01
Team members:	Content Transform Team
Backlog:	#maps

August 2021 update: On third-party usage

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. See How to report a bug. Please tag tasks with #Maps.

Project updates

August 2021

On third-party usage

March 2021

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
Dealing with vandalism
Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles

September to December 2018

Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
- Tile generation started at 10/22/2018, see Wikimedia Maps/Tile generation report for more information
Fixed Tilerator crashing with populate_admin script
Make snapshot service generate higher DPI images
Dependencies mapping and upgrading
Fixed stale z9 tile generation
Tilerator overloading proxy incident
Decommission of maps-test
Added map tile purge rule for cache invalidation strategies

Useful mapping links

Wikimedia Maps/API - Description of the API services provided by maps.wikimedia.org
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 performance, replag and health status
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.
Status of map styles in August 2018
Wikimedia Maps/Tile generation report - Update on tile generation
Extension:VisualData/Result_formats#Map Displays Leaflet maps from json-data