Wikimedia 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.

Wikimedia Maps Start: 2018-07-01 Team members: Content Transform Team Backlog: #maps ← Map improvements 2018

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

• Revised Maps Terms of Use
• Wikimedia Maps/2021 modernization plan

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