How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by zerebubuth on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:12PM (#17022037)

Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, also had an awesome (if I say so myself - I used to work there, but not on that team) vector tile renderer for browser and mobile. Check it out at https://github.com/tangrams

Also, there was a great interactive style editor (https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-play), although it seems the demo site is broken now :-(

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by peatmoss on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:46PM (#17022373)

RIP Mapzen. I loved how much much you all were contributing to the open source web space.

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by skate22 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:37PM (#17022819)

Any chance mapzen would open source the code used to make metro extracts? The formats your team had to offer were so much nicer than working with raw OSM data

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by zerebubuth on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @02:18PM (#17023264)

I'm glad you found them useful! The code which made all the metro extracts was embedded as a Chef recipe, although I'm sure you could just extract the bits which do stuff from the Chef wrappers: https://github.com/mapzen/chef-metroextractor

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by skate22 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:03PM (#17024386)

Cool! Thanks you!!

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