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MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Post by fit2rule »

nxpnsv wrote: post #3

I wanted to try this, it so I opened the demo https://codepen.io/klokan/pen/WNoZRyx and 30 mins later I am lost looking at Hungarian villages for some reason...

Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..)

Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Post by slibhb »

From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js

> Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher (“Mapbox Web SDK”) must be used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere with marked portions of the code related to billing, accounting, and anonymized data collection. The Mapbox Web SDK only sends anonymized usage data, which Mapbox uses for fixing bugs and errors, accounting, and generating aggregated anonymized statistics. This license terminates automatically if a user no longer has an active Mapbox account.

Seems their client code does some things related to "billing, accounting, and anonymized data collection" and they don't want programmers to disable or modify that code.

Is that right? Anyone who has followed this have more information? I haven't used mapbox in a few years but I think it's great technology.

Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Post by mourner »

slibhb wrote: post #5

From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher (“Mapbox Web SDK”) must be used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere with marked portions of the code related to billing, acco…

There was a big HN discussion about it a few months back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310

Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Post by rijoja »

genericguy wrote: post #7
rijoja wrote: post #2

Cool does anyone have experience of using this?

We are using it at couchers.org. It's a drop-in replacement to the 1.x versions which were properly open source.

Wow that is cool, good to see a couch surfing alternative. Have you gotten a decent amount of users?

Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

rijoja wrote: post #9
genericguy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are using it at couchers.org. It's a drop-in replacement to the 1.x versions which were properly open source.

Wow that is cool, good to see a couch surfing alternative. Have you gotten a decent amount of users?

There have been Couchsurfing alternatives for years and years. BeWelcome is a registered non-profit in France that has been around since ~2008, while Trustroots (also a registered non-profit) was founded in 2014 to provide a site whose web infrastructure could develop more quickly through hackathons, and would be more friendly to alternative travelers like hitchhikers.

The only reason some people saw a need for Couchers is because they wanted a site that was a more faithful clone of Couchsurfing, except without Couchsurfing's recent turn towards paywalls. However, people who have been involved in internet hospitality exchange for many years are concerned about this kind of duplication of effort. There were also concerns about Couchers’ non-profit status in the beginning, but one does have to give them credit for swiftly resolving that.

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