SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox

Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by erikb on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:57AM (#15442303)

And why didn't you do it in an open standard data format and just present it on Google Maps?

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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by vetinari on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:46AM (#15442734)

Google Maps itself isn't exactly open standard... See the woes of OpenLayers, for example.

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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by erikb on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:35PM (#15444205)

Yes, that's why I put these as two separate points.

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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by erikb on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:36PM (#15444211)

The downvotes let me assume that people understood this question as a suggestion. But it was really just a question from someone who hasn't looked into that space for 10 years and is curious how it looks like from an expert perspective.

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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by Bedon292 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:25PM (#15443065)

The Google Maps API is also more expensive than Mapbox.

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Re:SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox by neom on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:34PM (#15443138)

We have exportability as a first class citizen, so you can push out to google maps, tableau, esri, carto, etc. Data viz is not our core competency or something we intend to do very much of.

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