User:CKoerner (WMF)/Slippymap sunset

Change to OpenStreetMap template

Greetings,

We have a change to this template that we would like your help with.

Right now the template uses a tile service on Wikimedia Labs. This is not a service that can scale for wider use. We would like to stop using it for maps on the wikis. Instead, we would like to change the template to use the Wikimedia tile service. This is a new system that the Discovery department has developed over the last year. The Wikimedia tile service has much better support in terms of hardware, software, and active development.

Additionally the Labs service does not use the privacy policy. Moving to the Wikimedia tile server will better protect our users rights.

We would like to remove the <slippymap> tag and update the template with <mapframe>. With your help we will stop using the Labs tile service a month from now, on Monday, October 24th.

We encourage members of the community to update the template. We want to make this change with community involvement and are available to help with implementing the new tile service in this template.

You can learn more about what this change means, including example code, in this Phabricator task. If you have questions, please leave them below or at the Maps talk page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you for your time.