Cassini is back up now thanks to the Toolserver admins, since it's inactive at the moment I'm going to set it up with a rendering stack that'll run until Wikimania, of course if the database server pops back up at the beginning of august we may actually have something production ready by that time. So what I'm going to do with it (pending objections) is: * Set up a Planet.osm -> Cassini mirror * Set up a multilingular PostGIS database (see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19668). This should take around 50GB of space from the 345G /sql partition

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Colin Marquardt<cmarqu42(a)googlemail.com> wrote: What I'm setting up now on Cassini is just a temporary hacky system that rightly should be setup on the database server / tileserver, it'll be taken down again once the rest of this stuff is up. I'm taking notes on what I'm doing here as I go along: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Cassini/Setup_notes and here are some scripts in MW svn I'm writing: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/osm-tools/ It would be easy to add stuff the hiking map needs, but this is all a temporary setup anyway so we shouldn't move any production stuff to it I think. _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Aude<aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: These are the notes I'm taking when setting it up: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap/Cassini/Setup_notes and here are the scripts I'm writing to make things easier: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/osm-tools/osm2pgsql-s… What needs to be done is: * Hack up an export script: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19860 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19861 This is an easy task someone else could do. * Set up apache/mod_tile I'll try to do this when the osm2pgsql --slim import finishes. * Set up planet.osm/osm2pgsql mirroring so that it's automatically updated. I haven't looked into how to do this. It would be very helpful if someone would read up on the optimal way to configure postgres / how to do this updating so that I can stick something in cron that'll keep it up-to-date. * Set up squid in front of the cgi-bin/export script & tile server Someone just needs to give me a squid config I can use, or alternatively it would probably be better to adapt the tile cache Jens set up so that it can cache cassini too. Oh yes, what I'm doing now is just a hacky way of getting something to run. We'll want some alternative styles later (if we can get someone to maintain it!) but in the meantime I'm just poking the box because it's better than having it idle. Of course for some osm2pgsql styles (like the hikingmap) we'll need to add extra fields to the postgis database. Whether we're going to need one "production" rendering DB that does the main rendering Wikipedia wants to use and another one with a lot of fields or just shove everything in the DB & replicate it or something else is something we're going to have to figure out once we actually have a database server and some users to run tools. Speaking of which why don't we have any users yet? Is everything stalled on getting the DB machine up or are there some tools that can just use Cassini as-is? How is Unix-account approval being managed (who's taking care of that?). _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote: I've been hacking this up at my box. It now renders maps in different locales depending on what locale= I pass to it. It also supporst maptype= but currently I only have osm-like/ stylesheets. It would be easy to add new stylesheets though if someone made them. The import is still running:    Processing: Node(387769k) Way(28714k) Relation(0k) Hopefully it'll finish tonight. And here's a new todo: * Get renderd running This is pending the completion of the osm2pgsql import.

It would be neat to inject into the rendering queue the area that corresponds to what the static map we generate covers.

All 279 languages are now up, note that clicking on any of those will very likely yield a blank page when you first try it since it'll have to render the world at zoom 2 for that language (unless someone had it rendered already): http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/ But some of them are already up: http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/browse-de.html

I came across some encoding problems on the german map: http://tinyurl.com/ngu965 they seem to be better on the english one: http://tinyurl.com/msqlea but in comparison to the official osm-page they are missing localized names: http://tinyurl.com/mwd64c i also saw some not-translated country-names. e.g. on http://tinyurl.com/m6rhc5 "Democratic Republic of the Congo" should read "Demokratische Republik Kongo", also "Central African Republic" should be "Zentralafrikanische Republik".

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: Okay, it seems, that in Zoomlevel 7 everything is ok (http://cassini.toolserver.org/tiles/osm-like/de/7/92/53.png) but in Level 6 the special characters are still missing: http://cassini.toolserver.org/tiles/osm-like/de/6/46/26.png

Hey, cool! I didn't know editing country-names is as easy as editing other POIs. So I'll go ahead and add the German names to where it seems necessary.

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb: Damn it, i just cleared the cache and there they are. I just saw squares instead of these special chars, but now everything is fine. Yes but that's not the point - it the information is there, it will soon or later be used. that's all the magic of osm :) But for the moment i'm trying to find out the node-id of a country/island. e.g. i'm trying to edit http://tinyurl.com/nyy93g. How could i do this? Opening this region in josm/postlatch is not possible due to it's sizr, but higher zooms the name's not visible anymore.

I would be willing to help with database tasks, including getting the OSM updates going and optimizing things.  Of course, I would need access to the server to do anything.

After that's done, I can help with developing styles suitable for Wikipedia and other tasks.

I don't think you can get root access to cassini since it's a wikimedia box, they want to keep root access as restricted as possible. You could test it locally of course and submit something that works:) Who is they? Brion? or who? People who handle things like OTRS are well trusted.