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Re: OpenLayers

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Post by geuis »

atombender wrote: post #6

Speaking of, does anyone know a cheaper service than Mapbox and Google Maps for raster tiles? I have an app that uses Leaflet for rendering, and Mapbox purely for its raster tiles (both plain maps and satellite required). Mapbox has been cheap for us, at about $50/mo. But with the new pricing structure taking effect in December, it's now about $450/mo. I believe Google and Bing are both more expensive than that. I've…

Don’t know about cheaper, but Planet (planet.com) offers daily imagery. Worked there a few years ago.

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by mourner »

Leaflet author here! Just wanted to note that if you haven't looked into OpenLayers in a few years, you absolutely should — it's astonishing how much it progressed: from something that I was so frustrated with that it prompted me to write Leaflet in the first place (11 years ago) to a modern, fast, well-engineered and lovingly maintained library.

It's especially great when you're doing complex GIS stuff and need a ton of features and formats supported out of the box. As for other libraries, I'd recommend Leaflet for simple maps, and Mapbox GL for rich, highly interactive apps that benefit from vector rendering tech (I'm biased since I contributed to both), but it's great to have OpenLayers in the mix — there's a library for anyone's needs, cross-inspiration moves all three forward, and the mapping software landscape in general is greater than it has ever been.

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Post by ghgr »

What a coincidence! I discovered OpenLayers yesterday when looking for a way to display a 1 Terapixel image. I got it up and running in a few hours. Kudos to the developers!

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Post by conroydave »

mourner wrote: post #32

Leaflet author here! Just wanted to note that if you haven't looked into OpenLayers in a few years, you absolutely should — it's astonishing how much it progressed: from something that I was so frustrated with that it prompted me to write Leaflet in the first place (11 years ago) to a modern, fast, well-engineered and lovingly maintained library. It's especially great when you're doing complex GIS stuff and need a to…

hey thanks for building leaflet

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by maliker »

Demiurge wrote: post #28
maliker wrote: post #18

We used openLayers, ran in to performance issues, switched to Leaflet, and couldn't be happier. Just our experience, for what it's worth.

What kind of performance/use case did you have? I haven't touched leaflet since the giant rewrite.

We were just trying to get a ton of circles (electric vehicle ranges) on a map.

We were going to do something to optimize it in OpenLayers by simplifying the shapes, but when we tried it in Leaflet it just worked a lot faster (fast redraws). We think it's something around how Leaflet dynamically switches to a canvas renderer for big datasets.

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by Shakahs »

atombender wrote: post #6

Speaking of, does anyone know a cheaper service than Mapbox and Google Maps for raster tiles? I have an app that uses Leaflet for rendering, and Mapbox purely for its raster tiles (both plain maps and satellite required). Mapbox has been cheap for us, at about $50/mo. But with the new pricing structure taking effect in December, it's now about $450/mo. I believe Google and Bing are both more expensive than that. I've…

I went through the various providers and ended up using MapTiler Cloud, it is the cheapest option I know of besides generating and serving your own tiles.

https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/plans/

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by maliker »

k__ wrote: post #21
maliker wrote: post #18

We used openLayers, ran in to performance issues, switched to Leaflet, and couldn't be happier. Just our experience, for what it's worth.

I used Leaflet and had to do some things with realtime visuals in D3 as overlay for Leaflet, because of performance issues.

We switched the opposite direction (D3 to Leaflet) on a different app and got a performance speed up for big sets of vector shapes. Seems like there are tons of ways to engineer these web graphics apps and no clear "best solution".

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by maliker »

zefman wrote: post #23
maliker wrote: post #18

We used openLayers, ran in to performance issues, switched to Leaflet, and couldn't be happier. Just our experience, for what it's worth.

We had the exact opposite problem! We built a custom webgl rendering layer on top of leaflet to get around leaflet's performance issues. We have now switcher to openlayers and very happy. Guess it depends on the exact use case.

Sounds like we should do some more OpenLayers testing! Thanks.

Re: OpenLayers

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Post by guu »

mourner wrote: post #32

Leaflet author here! Just wanted to note that if you haven't looked into OpenLayers in a few years, you absolutely should — it's astonishing how much it progressed: from something that I was so frustrated with that it prompted me to write Leaflet in the first place (11 years ago) to a modern, fast, well-engineered and lovingly maintained library. It's especially great when you're doing complex GIS stuff and need a to…

Thanks for creating Leaflet and Mapbox GL!

Do you have any specific examples of "complex GIS stuff" (Uses OpenLayers) or a "highly interactive app" (Uses MapBox GL)?

Are there any big feature gaps from leaflet->mapbox-gl that developers should consider when choosing a mapping library?

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