MapKit JS – Embed interactive Apple maps on your website

Post by rimliu » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 7:30 AM UTC

aphextron wrote: post #8

sdm wrote: post #7

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It really depends which country you're looking at. Usually Google Maps is better, but not always. China is a good example of a place where Apple Maps is far superior.

>It really depends which country you're looking at. Usually Google Maps is better, but not always. China is a good example of a place where Apple Maps is far superior. What you really mean is that Google is so artificially handicapped by the Chinese government that Apple Maps is actually decent in comparison. I do not envy that situation.

Post by angott » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 10:30 AM UTC

iamleppert wrote: post #16

First impressions: - Doesn't seem very performant, panning behavior and zooming seems to redraw a lot unnecessarily, low framerate and not very smooth on good hardware - Poor support for touch events, pinch zoom and pan didn't work for me on touchpad - Looks to be using (PNG?) image tiles but and over-scaled canvas element, my laptop's fan came on during simple zoom and panning. I closed the tab and it promptly shut…

Post by emilfihlman » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

vasile wrote: post #9

The API is rich and neat, just hacked a little demo with driving directions https://github.com/vasile/mapkit-js-demo

Post by hadrien01 » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

H1Supreme wrote: post #11

hadrien01 wrote: post #6

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There is no information about use limits, but you need a paid Apple Developer Program account.

> but you need a paid Apple Developer Program account. Where was "paid" bit listed? You don't have to pay the yearly fee to have a developer account. I let my paid subscription expire a few years ago, and I can still login and do various things.