Last weekend I attended an amazing Open GIS <http://gisconf.ru/> conference
in Moscow. Many good topics, great energy, lots of people wanting to help
us build the best maps on the planet. I gave two presentations, one about
the overall state of our maps initiative, and one on the tech we have built.
As part of the discussion, the GeoHack for the Russian Wikipedia was
updated to use our maps, so we had a six fold increase
<http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/maps/> in the number of maps users! Will
see how it may change during the week. As part of the KPIs, we should
add per-country
graphs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119448> (top 10 only).
Other results might take time - people learnt of our technology, and I
learnt some of the projects we may benefit from, for example I learnt of
the simplestyle
<https://github.com/mapbox/simplestyle-spec/tree/master/1.1.0> and
GeoJSON+CSS <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geojson_CSS> (will allow
our editors to style custom objects they overlay on top of the map).
In short, it was a fun weekend )