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Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by notaddicted »

aasarava wrote: post #88

Does anyone have any pointers to tutorials on how to get started building OSM maps? For example, if I have my own "map" of the US (a simple graphic image), how do I go about connecting that up to state boundaries and plotting lat/long on it, and then breaking it all up into tiles? I feel like that part of the puzzle is always missing from blog posts like these (though the post is helpful for the bigger infrastructure…

This isn't 100% what you're asking about, but http://mapsfromscratch.com/ has instructions for how to render and server map tiles, where you basically control the whole stack.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by kennywinker »

kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

People use google plus enough that a special hook to note that it's from google plus, not google.com would help immensely.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by draebek »

peteretep wrote: post #84
ubercore wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound like a downer, because I really appreciate open source mapping, but that's the part where I think the costs, long term, will swing back. Google maps is deceptively simple, in that the javascript library and tiling is a relatively solved problem. Google has the best datasets, and the best large-data know-how in the business, so outsourcing things like an up-to-date transit location and route database is b…

> Forgot to mention my own personal white whale. Google's geocoder is far from perfect, but it's the best I've seen Lulz wht? Google's Geocoder is by far the suckiest of any of the ones I evaluated. I'd highly recommend Bing or Yahoo before Google's geocoder.

Or MapQuest, who have the best commercial licensing terms I've seen (which isn't saying much), and who also have a passable API.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by baddox »

dpcan wrote: post #10
kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

Also not on the topic of the article, but... I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period. It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.

What causes that text blurring on iOS devices? I've encountered it on TechCrunch as well.

By the way, Hacker News is fairly unreadable on an iPhone because the text is so small text width so great. I haven't found a mobile interface that allows me to log in and comment.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by kooshball »

jraines wrote: post #83
kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

Here's a userscript that makes HN show all subdomains. If you're in Chrome, just click on "Raw"to install. https://gist.github.com/1522657

Excellent.

I was just about to write a Chrome extension to do this.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by pacaro »

peteretep wrote: post #84
ubercore wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound like a downer, because I really appreciate open source mapping, but that's the part where I think the costs, long term, will swing back. Google maps is deceptively simple, in that the javascript library and tiling is a relatively solved problem. Google has the best datasets, and the best large-data know-how in the business, so outsourcing things like an up-to-date transit location and route database is b…

> Forgot to mention my own personal white whale. Google's geocoder is far from perfect, but it's the best I've seen Lulz wht? Google's Geocoder is by far the suckiest of any of the ones I evaluated. I'd highly recommend Bing or Yahoo before Google's geocoder.

I frequently have to deliver the bad news to bewildered drivers that the federal building they are looking for is in the middle of Seattle, not on a suburban street Kirkland which just happens to have some similar street numbers - they are always using Google maps directions...

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by brudgers »

jasonkester wrote: post #71
brudgers wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reasonable or not, that is the expectation Apple has encouraged iPhone users to hold - every website should have its own app in a way reminiscent of AOL keywords.

Expectation for who? It has never occurred to me to install an app to view a single website. Maybe this is something you do, and therefore think that other people also do. But you're mistaken. I browse the web using a web browser. Even on my iPhone.

Since I don't own an iPhone, your assumption is incorrect. My spouse and many other non-technical people I know do own iPhones. And it is very common for them to use apps rather than their browser to access web content.

Re: Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

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Post by rottencupcakes »

dpcan wrote: post #10
kooshball wrote: post #7

I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title. >Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com) is simply misleading.

Also not on the topic of the article, but... I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period. It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Google+ is one of the easiest correctly sized columns of text to read on my iPhone.

The following is a screen shot. Do you care to elaborate on what is wrong?

http://imgur.com/xDksb

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