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Maps are hard to make if you are a typical programmer who thinks everything can be abstracted with an API. I checked out Felt and while what it has is polished
by RicoElectrico 4y ago
Maps are hard to make if you are a typical programmer who thinks everything can be abstracted with an API.
I checked out Felt and while what it has is polished, the feature set seems to be tailored towards investor demos, not actual mapmaking. There are only 2 basemaps, the only feature styling is coloring. Datasets are pretty much biased towards USA. Clipping is arbitrarily nerfed to US administrative divisions and buildings.
If I were doing such service, I would jump on the trend of communities creating maps and infographics such as [1][2][3] - observe how large they are.
[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/mapawka/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/mapawka/
[2] https://www.facebook.com/SimonGerman600/ https://www.facebook.com/SimonGerman600/
[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/