Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
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Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#2I hope the terribly slow map rendering is just a direct result of early release scaling problems. Because it's running unusably slow here.
Edit: I'd like to clarify, it is running in a usable, if laggy fashion, in general, but the main advantage of Google Maps to most competition IMO, is the blistering speed.
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#3I hope the terribly slow map rendering is just a direct result of early release scaling problems. Because it's running unusably slow here. Edit: I'd like to clarify, it is running in a usable, if laggy fashion, in general, but the main advantage of Google Maps to most competition IMO, is the blistering speed.
We just saw a genuine torrent of traffic and are scaling up as I speak.
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#4Looks interesting. Pricing looks to be roughly 15% of what we pay to google to use the maps api. Nice-looking too.
I see the hat-tip to OpenStreetMap - what's the relationship between OSM and MapBox? Do you own the content, or is your added value the servers and the API?
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#5I hope the terribly slow map rendering is just a direct result of early release scaling problems. Because it's running unusably slow here. Edit: I'd like to clarify, it is running in a usable, if laggy fashion, in general, but the main advantage of Google Maps to most competition IMO, is the blistering speed.
On the plus side, the current slowness enabled me to see some interesting Cloudfront response headers. I see "X-Cache:Hit from cloudfront", "X-Cache:Miss from cloudfront", and "X-Cache:Error from cloudfront" in responses from various tile files.
And I see that they're helpfully using 4 hostname aliases for map tile downloads, namely [a-d].tiles.mapbox.com, to increase parallel downloads.
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#6Looks interesting. Pricing looks to be roughly 15% of what we pay to google to use the maps api. Nice-looking too. I see the hat-tip to OpenStreetMap - what's the relationship between OSM and MapBox? Do you own the content, or is your added value the servers and the API?
We use OpenStreetMap data for all roads - for some political boundaries and labels, you've got to bring in some other open data sources to make things look decent. Copyright on this rendition of the maps is MapBox's, data is OpenStreetMap's - that distinction is cleared up by their licensing.
Besides that, the relationship is that we contribute, with a lot of hours, to OpenStreetMap's data & code, and try to get more visibility for the project. There's very little official about OpenStreetMap, so it's not like anyone has a title or secret plans.
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#7I'm working on a map-based business that currently uses google maps. I might switch to this before or shortly after I open to the public. It looks great and is much cheaper than google!
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#8There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors make!
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#9I hope the terribly slow map rendering is just a direct result of early release scaling problems. Because it's running unusably slow here. Edit: I'd like to clarify, it is running in a usable, if laggy fashion, in general, but the main advantage of Google Maps to most competition IMO, is the blistering speed.
Personally I find Google Maps to be quite slow, especially on mobile devices! Looking forward to comparing this one on mobile phones!
Re: Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail
#10Great news! Is this available at high zooms across the US and Canada yet?