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Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by vijayaggarwal » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

justinpaulson wrote: post #25

vijayaggarwal wrote: post #12

Particularly 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.

You mean like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_City_Streets

Oh yes, I also used to make casual games in flash for social platforms like facebook back in 2009. These days it's OpenGL and mobile. The market size is bigger and user experience better. Btw, 5m accounts in three months despite so many launch issues is not bad.

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by Doctor_Fegg » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

molind wrote: post #15

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #2

This 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. ;)

Out of interest, what sort of storage are you using for the vector data? Is it OSM PBF, MapBox vector tiles, or something custom?

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by molind » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #32

molind wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad, you like it. And thanks for MapCSS. ;)

Out of interest, what sort of storage are you using for the vector data? Is it OSM PBF, MapBox vector tiles, or something custom?

It's custom msgpack based tile format + sqlite.

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by d135_1r43 » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

Are you based in Karlsruhe (which is displayed on your front page)? I graduated from the KIT there…

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by molind » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

d135_1r43 wrote: post #34

Are you based in Karlsruhe (which is displayed on your front page)? I graduated from the KIT there…

We're based in Minsk, Belarus. I was in Karlsruhe on SotM-EU'14 recently, and I like shape of the city centre. It's looks beautiful on map. :)

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by zackmorris » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

Looks cool, but does it do affine/perspective rendering? I'm looking for a map service that allows me to project the map but still render labels in 2D. Or preferably, to get the various layers on their own framebuffers to be rendered arbitrarily. Elevation data would be a plus also.

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by chris11 » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 6:18 PM UTC

zackmorris wrote: post #36

Looks cool, but does it do affine/perspective rendering? I'm looking for a map service that allows me to project the map but still render labels in 2D. Or preferably, to get the various layers on their own framebuffers to be rendered arbitrarily. Elevation data would be a plus also.

GDAL is a pretty cool opensource library that will do affine transformations. And it looks like you can use it with IOS projects. So you might want to check that out. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12643898/incorporating-gd...

Re: Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

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Post by ntaso » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 8:06 AM UTC

vecinu wrote: post #13

ntaso wrote: post #7

Earlier 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…

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.

Don't get hung up on that about page too much. An imprint is usually fine, an about page is even better.

The reason is very simple: From my experience, legitimate businesses have an imprint. As I said, an imprint is mandatory in most countries for commercial websites and trying to hide the address is very sketchy.