Any reason to import a 3rd party library for functionality built in to the iOS SDK? Seems like work to explore/integrate a dependency where none is needed. Without this extra work, this is something that can be built in < 1 day.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Cool, looks like mapbox has an 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 (umap, see more info)

* Wikidata-based map of pages by class, e.g. all rollercoasters.

* There is an amazing presentation (pdf) by Kolossos (Tim Adler), that gives many more examples of the community-built map services and projects (OpenOffice format)

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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