Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail

Re:Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level... by tmcw on Monday February 27, 2012 @05:23PM (#3640916)

It's z16 globally - as soon as this is solidly out in the wild, we'll be working hard on getting deeper zoom levels. Each zoom level is exponentially larger than the last, so it's a significant challenge.

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Re:Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level... by ericd on Monday February 27, 2012 @07:03PM (#3641203)

As a maps dev, I'm very familiar with those exponential scaling problems, 4^z is a bitch. :-) Thanks for taking on this problem.

What zoom level are you all at in major US metro areas?

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Re:Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level... by yuletide666 on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:56PM (#3641670)

Is there a way to selectively cache to deeper levels in certain areas? That'd be rad.

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Re:Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level... by tmcw on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:13AM (#3642119)

We're doing selective rendering with MapBox Light, which is deeper in cities. For this, it's better to have always-there zoom levels. Otherwise you grapple with the deep, deep problem of someone panning from a high-zoom area to a low one, or using an API like Leaflet programmed to zoom to a level. Unless you control the API and have a zoom-depth-api like Google, having a map with highly variable max zooms isn't an easy call.

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