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Normalyze, Inc | Full Stack Engineer | Remote(anywhere) | Full-time We just got funded and started on a cybersecurity SaaS B2B company. We are tackling a problem that infosec and d…

I am making my profitable (although not enough to feed a family of four) app now free https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/best-travel-offline-maps-guides/id501782148?mt=8. I will be sh…

Parse is one of the best abstractions for modern programming I have seen in a while. It's a kind of abstraction that goes beyond a single programming language. Very innovative. I h…

What inspiring and awe-inspiring talk! I discovered this video thanks to this post on HN http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4171058

Android has built in offline maps. Not sure about POIs not sure if the quality is as good as openstreetmaps for offline version. Given the app sales monetization for iOS vs Android…

That's an awesome app. I would like to have their rendering detail and compression but settled for what I did to make sure I have an MVP. They focussed on map rendering quality and…

Buy it now so you don't have to remember to buy it before your next trip :)

I use mapnik to generate tiles from OSM data. Get in touch with me via email ravi at light fighter labs dawt com (dawt should avoid harvesters :)) I'll be glad if I can help.

I might release it some day. Right now, the code is not release-worthy. I do know my way around it since I wrote it and so, it's really pretty easy for me to add new maps if you se…

No routing as of now. My main target segment is tourists on foot in popular travel destinations outside of their country. I think a map of the entire world is too big to fit on an …

Why the entire planet is not available: I wanted to host it on an inexpensive server (only what's needed), generate maps only for regions that are popular among my target segment (…

Added the credit as a main feature. Now that I think of it, it is a feature rather than just a credit. OpenStreetMap is indeed better than many commercial mapping data sources for …

A follow up on what hitting the front page of HN did to your app downloads is due soon.