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Draft technical hand-off documentation to celebrate the end of WMDE Tech Wishes involvement in kartotherian and kartographer. Write this in collaboration with the WMF maps developers and SRE. * [ ] Service containerization * [ ] Node 14+ * [ ] Mapnik 3.1 which is the final "LTS" for the old stack. * [ ] Plan what a mapslibre.org migration would look like * [ ] Separate geoshapes DB from map rendering DB using imposm capabilities

Draft technical hand-off documentation to celebrate the end of WMDE Tech Wishes involvement in kartotherian and kartographer. Write this in collaboration with the WMF maps developers and SRE. * [ ] Service containerization * Moving to k8s will make it easier to upgrade Node (now and in the future). * Split geoshapes into a separate service. * Containerization made it much easier to refactor the service. There's a proof-of-concept port into TypeScript. * Will lower the maintenance barrier. * [ ] Node 14+ * Any earlier Node is already end-of-life. * This upgrade will be a strategic requirement for moving to mapslibre or generally, upgrading upstream packages. * [ ] Mapnik 3.1 which is the final "LTS" for the old stack. * [ ] Plan what a mapslibre.org migration would look like * Will be a lot of work if we keep our current schema and styles. * Have pitched https://openmaptiles.org/ in the past. Has a very similar style available: https://openmaptiles.org/styles/#osm-bright * Feasible. The API does allow us to port what has already been implemented. * Need to keep language support in mind. * Mini-investigation into benchmarking language support with the WebGL renderer which is part of mapslibre: T281230 * [ ] Separate geoshapes DB from map rendering DB using imposm capabilities * Depends on the geoshapes split above. * Will make it much easier to maintain the full-planet OSM sync database for rendering. * Geoshape database will be smaller.

Draft technical hand-off documentation to celebrate the end of WMDE Tech Wishes involvement in kartotherian and kartographer. Write this in collaboration with the WMF maps developers and SRE. * [ ] Service containerization * Moving to k8s will make it easier to upgrade Node (now and in the future). * Split geoshapes into a separate service. * Containerization made it much easier to refactor the service. There's a proof-of-concept port into TypeScript. * Will lower the maintenance barrier. * [ ] Node 14+ * Any earlier Node is already end-of-life. * This upgrade will be a strategic requirement for moving to mapslibre or generally, upgrading upstream packages. * [ ] Mapnik 3.1 which is the final "LTS" for the old stack. * [ ] Plan what a mapslibre.org migration would look like * Will be a lot of work if we keep our current schema and styles. * Have pitched https://openmaptiles.org/ in the past. Has a very similar style available: https://openmaptiles.org/styles/#osm-bright * Feasible. The API does allow us to port what has already been implemented. * Need to keep language support in mind. * Mini-investigation into benchmarking language support with the WebGL renderer which is part of mapslibre: T281230 * [ ] Separate geoshapes DB from map rendering DB using imposm capabilities * Depends on the geoshapes split above. * Will make it much easier to maintain the full-planet OSM sync database for rendering. * Geoshape database will be smaller.