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Oh I'm so sad for them. Mapzen has a bunch of really great products and services, they are some of the top experts in open source mapping. It's a shame the busi

Oh I'm so sad for them. Mapzen has a bunch of really great products and services, they are some of the top experts in open source mapping. It's a shame the business hasn't worked out. They have a good companion post on alternative services for folks needing to migrate. It doubles as a survey of the best in open source mapping tools out there right now. https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ Edit also a post specific to the Who's On First project: https://www.whosonfirst.org/blog/2018/01/02/chapter-two/ https://www.whosonfirst.org/blog/2018/01/02/chapter-two/

brightball 9y ago
Great to know. I’d been thinking about setting up these tools just to tinker anyway.
bsder 9y ago
> They have a good companion post on alternative services for folks needing to migrate. It doubles as a survey of the best in open source mapping tools out there right now. https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ That post needs to be archived somewhere before the shutdown.
- queeerkopf 9y ago
  They took care of that themselves: https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532 https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532 It's not as nicely formatted though. The Internet Archive has it too and it's closer to the original: http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com...
  - javajosh 9y ago
    What if medium goes out of business?
    - fgonzag 9y ago
      then if you really need it, save a copy yourself...
    - voltagex_ 9y ago
      Donate to the Internet Archive. It's not a "what if", it's a "when".
    - javajosh 9y ago
      5 downvotes and counting. Why is that? Isn't it remarkable that we're relying on another startup, one who may not even be revenue positive, to archive the output of another failed startup? Is this not an interesting thing?
- pyre 9y ago
  https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-posts https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-po... Says the blog posts will be archived.
- ernsheong 9y ago
  There you go :) https://app.pagedash.com/p/789ed7b4-051d-487c-9fbd-63cc9402a1ab/QNA6bO1KKjPqNCnHwnQN https://app.pagedash.com/p/789ed7b4-051d-487c-9fbd-63cc9402a... Disclaimer: I'm the founder of PageDash
  - bthornbury 9y ago
    Doesn't work on ios
    - ernsheong 9y ago
      Apologies, there was an outage. It's back now. Not mobile-optimized, though

brightball 9y ago

Great to know. I’d been thinking about setting up these tools just to tinker anyway.

bsder 9y ago

> They have a good companion post on alternative services for folks needing to migrate. It doubles as a survey of the best in open source mapping tools out there right now. https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ That post needs to be archived somewhere before the shutdown.

queeerkopf 9y ago
They took care of that themselves: https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532 https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532 It's not as nicely formatted though. The Internet Archive has it too and it's closer to the original: http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com...
- javajosh 9y ago
  What if medium goes out of business?
  - fgonzag 9y ago
    then if you really need it, save a copy yourself...
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    Donate to the Internet Archive. It's not a "what if", it's a "when".
  - javajosh 9y ago
    5 downvotes and counting. Why is that? Isn't it remarkable that we're relying on another startup, one who may not even be revenue positive, to archive the output of another failed startup? Is this not an interesting thing?
pyre 9y ago
https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-posts https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-po... Says the blog posts will be archived.
ernsheong 9y ago
There you go :) https://app.pagedash.com/p/789ed7b4-051d-487c-9fbd-63cc9402a1ab/QNA6bO1KKjPqNCnHwnQN https://app.pagedash.com/p/789ed7b4-051d-487c-9fbd-63cc9402a... Disclaimer: I'm the founder of PageDash
- bthornbury 9y ago
  Doesn't work on ios
  - ernsheong 9y ago
    Apologies, there was an outage. It's back now. Not mobile-optimized, though