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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by kevincennis on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:22AM (#15441976)
Mapzen is also excellent (although definitely less mature than Mapbox), and a huge chunk of their stack is open source.
Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by drewda on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:32AM (#15442082)
At Mapzen, all our code is open source, from front-end UIs to back-end "glue." Have a look at:

- web and mobile SDKs: http://github.com/mapzen/

- map rendering library: http://github.com/tangrams

- map tiles: https://github.com/tilezen/

- routing/navigation: https://github.com/valhalla/

- public transit: https://github.com/transitland/

- search/geocoding: http://github.com/pelias

- gazetteer: https://github.com/whosonfirst

FWIW, we do have a few private repos, to protect some ops internals as well as upcoming blog posts.

(I work at Mapzen -- and am also a happy user of Mapbox's open-source libraries.)

Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by arctux on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:07PM (#15444463)
Mapzen is an awesome company. I'm excited to see what comes of OpenTraffic, a Mapzen-sponsored, open-source traffic speed data set: https://github.com/opentraffic/
Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by kevincennis on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:43AM (#15442195)
Yup. I've checked out a bunch of those – and have actually contributed to pelias/api (and a dependency, addressit).

Everything I've seen so far has been clean and pretty easy to follow. Really appreciate the work you all do.

I'm a very happy Mapzen customer.