The Discovery Department has launched an experimental tile and static maps service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org.

Using this service you can browse and embed map tiles into your own tools using OpenStreetMap data. Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs .org and *.wikivoyage .org (referrer header must be either missing or set to these values) but we would like to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if we see enough use. Our hope is that this service fits the needs of the numerous maps developers and tool authors who have asked for a WMF hosted tile service with an initial focus on WikiVoyage.

We'd love for you to try our new service, experiment writing tools using our tiles, and giving us feedback . If you've built a tool using OpenStreetMap-based imagery then using our service is a simple drop-in replacement.

Getting started is as easy as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Getting_Started

How can you help?

* Adapt your labs tool to use this service - for example, use Leaflet js library and point it to https://maps.wikimedia.org
* File bugs in Phabricator
* Provide us feedback to help guide future features
* Improve our map style
* Improve our data extraction

Based on usage and your feedback, the Discovery team will decide how to proceed.

We could add more data sources (both vector and raster), work on additional services such as static maps or geosearch, work on supporting all languages, switch to client-side WebGL rendering, etc. Please help us decide what is most important.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps has more about the project and related Maps work.

== In Depth ==

Tiles are served from https://maps.wikimedia.org, but can only be accessed from any subdomains of *.wmflabs .org and *.wikivoyage.org.  Kartotherian can produce tiles as images (png), and as raw vector data (PBF Mapbox format or json):