Cool, looks like mapbox has an iOS SDK https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-ios-sdk/. Is there somewhere that the progress on funding is being tracked? Put another way, where should I direct PM, design, etc. to get this prioritized? Also, I think it'd be worth it to ship this to a percentage of users to (further) validate the feature.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrakhan@wikimedia.org wrote:
Current state of affairs: https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ is up and running, and should have all the data soon. It uses mapbox stack, which means that it generates vector data tiles, and creates a PNG tiles on the fly. This also means that in a few days, you will be able to view WebGL based maps there too - rendered on the browser, with multiple styles, and rotatable.
The community needs this service, and has already built a large number of amazing projects even without the production-level vector service. Examples include
- atlas-style drill-down map
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/wikipedia-clustermap_36725 (umap, see more info http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/)
- Wikidata-based map of pages by class
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php?lang=en, e.g. all rollercoasters https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/kml-on-ol.php?lang=en&uselang=en&zoom=3&lat=0&lon=0&classes=204832 .
- There is an amazing presentation
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.pdf (pdf) by Kolossos (Tim Adler), that gives many more examples of the community-built map services and projects (OpenOffice format https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.odp)
P.S. Tomasz, it's Yuri, not Yuvi, and don't blame IRC auto-complete :)
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hey - yes, we're workig on serving map tiles. Both raster and MapBox vectors. Our current demo implementation is at https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ - only raster tiles ATM, vectors coming in 1-2 days. The main problem, however, is budgeting - yet if we get very little hardware, concentrating on maps for apps might even be a reasonable option as apps traffic might be lower than if we exposed maps to all web users. Getting no bugdet at all is also a possible outcome, though.
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