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Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect
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Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect
#12Particularly interesting for game developers who can use it deeply customize maps to fit well into their gaming experience. I am tempted to build a monopoly-like game with the real world up for sale and purchase. And one like Need for Speed with real-world traffic. Even one for amateur marathon runs on countryside terrains.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
So does it mean that you will never purchase a service from somebody who you don't know? Let's say they added an about us page and list their names, but you still don't know these people, does it mean you won't purchase the service even tho they have an "About Us" page?
Online, I only purchase stuff if they have a legally-looking imprint and make a general impression of seriousness. And while this website has a nice design, the lack of an imprint implies that there's something sketchy going on. My reasoning is: If someone is afraid to put his complete name + address online, there must be a reason for it and I'm not the one wanting to do business with him or her. Edit: I don't have t…
And if that address is a fake address?
I really don't understand your reasoning for wanting an About Us page before purchasing a service. I don't feel that this level of paranoia is appropriate when using online services.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
So does it mean that you will never purchase a service from somebody who you don't know? Let's say they added an about us page and list their names, but you still don't know these people, does it mean you won't purchase the service even tho they have an "About Us" page?
Online, I only purchase stuff if they have a legally-looking imprint and make a general impression of seriousness. And while this website has a nice design, the lack of an imprint implies that there's something sketchy going on. My reasoning is: If someone is afraid to put his complete name + address online, there must be a reason for it and I'm not the one wanting to do business with him or her. Edit: I don't have t…
The service costs $29/mo. Most people here make more than that per hour. It's completely illogical to worry about losing $30 unless that $30 has high utility to your life.
If they steal your money, you can make an HN submission about your experience, which will completely ruin their reputation. Their reputation is far more valuable than whatever small amount of pocket change they could skim by tricking a few HN users. Therefore, the chance that your money is going to be stolen is hovering just above nil.
Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect
#15This looks really promising, particularly the ability to switch styles on the fly. It could perhaps work as an onramp to get an app out there before switching to something custom-built as traffic builds. I'm tempted. (Declaration of interest: I invented MapCSS, the styling language which this uses.)
Glad, you like it. And thanks for MapCSS. ;)
Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect
#16Always cool to see more uses of openstreetmap. Gives me even more motivation to work on it.
Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect
#17I am currently working on a location-based game for iOS and have been using Google Maps SDK and I'm extremely interested in this.
Google Maps has refused to respond to all requests for custom styled maps on iOS despite being the most requested feature.[1]
I've also tried MapBox but both have been giving very bad performance on iPhone 4... this could be just my code, however as a game I really need to perform a lot of animation on the map itself and these 2 options perform quite poorly in my experience.
Another issue with map SDKs is that there's usually no way to turn off road names. I just need the road vectors to be rendered (like Ingress) so players get a baring of where they are relative to their roads, but not necessarily the name of the roads. I imagine that it would be more performant if I could turn that off. Neither Google nor Mapbox allows this unfortunately.
Might give this a go to see how well it works with all the things we're throwing at our map functionality. Thanks!
[1] - https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Online, I only purchase stuff if they have a legally-looking imprint and make a general impression of seriousness. And while this website has a nice design, the lack of an imprint implies that there's something sketchy going on. My reasoning is: If someone is afraid to put his complete name + address online, there must be a reason for it and I'm not the one wanting to do business with him or her. Edit: I don't have t…
The service costs $29/mo. Most people here make more than that per hour. It's completely illogical to worry about losing $30 unless that $30 has high utility to your life. If they steal your money, you can make an HN submission about your experience, which will completely ruin their reputation. Their reputation is far more valuable than whatever small amount of pocket change they could skim by tricking a few HN users…
Aren't you exaggerating when you say that
> an HN submission about your experience, [..] will completely ruin their reputation
?
Are there any cases like the example you suggested?
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#19Looks nice, but since it's completely unclear who's behind this, I personally wouldn't buy. People, add an imprint at least, better an "About us" page.
Well the data is from OpenStreetMap, you can know what you're getting there.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The service costs $29/mo. Most people here make more than that per hour. It's completely illogical to worry about losing $30 unless that $30 has high utility to your life. If they steal your money, you can make an HN submission about your experience, which will completely ruin their reputation. Their reputation is far more valuable than whatever small amount of pocket change they could skim by tricking a few HN users…
Aren't you exaggerating when you say that > an HN submission about your experience, [..] will completely ruin their reputation ? Are there any cases like the example you suggested?
If they literally stole your money, which is what the parent poster was worrying about, then there's no chance their reputation will last very long. The HN post would just be the manifestation of that. In fact, I don't think anyone has ever posted a "Show HN" with malicious intent, let alone gotten away with it.