I have been traveling (at the OSM conference and holiday), and had limited
or no internet. So, I wasn't checking e-mails and didn't so much coding as
hoped. At a glance, your code changes look good, especially the parser
tests and parameter validation. I can look in more detail and see what
needs to be done now.
For Wikimania, I'm mostly interested in talking about possibly providing a
custom map generation service on the map toolserver. I'm working on the
ability to generate custom static maps (no zoom/panning) with a small number
of base map options including OSM and custom overlays, pulling data from
places like
data.gov. If I can succeed with getting something like this
working really well, then there is potential of funding and support for
further development (
http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/).
For an OSM preconference workshop, I think the local Argentinian will be
doing something targeted for the local (e.g. Spanish speaking) audience. I
don't know details right now.
-Kate
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi there, it looks like our talks for Wikimania 2009
have been scheduled:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule#Day_2
I won't be around for much of August so I'm trying to do all the work
of working on software / my talk now before the end of July.
So before that time I'd like to coordinate with you two (and other
people?) how we're going to:
* Do this pre-conference OSM workshop that we've signed up for
* Split up our talks so that we make sure we don't have overlapping
subjects and don't miss anything important.
Basically what I'm interested in presenting for the latter is what I
blathered about at the Wikimania hacking days:
* A technical overview of how this OSM on Wikimedia thing works, i.e.
Planet.osm -> Database -> Rendering -> Embedding in MediaWiki
* Demos on using the extension for things I'm working on that'll
(hopefully!) be finished at that time, e.g.:
* Static map generation:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19654
* Multilingular map generation:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19668 (I'm going to do
this by e.g. showing the West Bank in both Hebrew & Arabic)
* Whatever else fits into that general criteria that I'm forgetting
when writing this hurried e-mail
For the latter it would be nice to:
* Get in contact with that local Argentinian
OpenStreetMapper/Wikipedian that someone mentioned and get him in on
this
* Find out what our audience will be, what are they likely to want?
* Schedule some sort of outline for what we want to do .*I* can
blather about GPS collecting -> editing -> map generation or whatever
and answer questions, but it would be nice if we had something more
focused than that :)
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