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And since the state of the open source map rendering art is consisting almost exclusively of pre-licence-change forks of mapbox code these days, they kind of st
by usrusr 4y ago
And since the state of the open source map rendering art is consisting almost exclusively of pre-licence-change forks of mapbox code these days, they kind of still are.
I wonder if Strava's recent acquisition of fatmap.com eventually boils down to them cutting ties with mapbox via acqui-hiring some mb-libre excellence. I could imagine Strava, due to the extreme map-centric nature of their product, bleeding quite considerable money to mapbox.
- kylebarron 4y agoI didn't think Fatmap was based on mapbox at all? I thought it was their own custom renderer
- gorbypark 4y agoI’m interpreting the comment above to mean Strava was/is a user of Mapbox and bought Fatmap in an effort to wean themselves off of Mapbox and use “inhouse” (Fatmap) mapping tech.
- usrusr 4y agoI took a superficial glance at what the site is loading and iirc there were plenty of the usual suspects in there. And it would be silly to do it any other way, because their product is what they do with maps, not winning some NIH purity award.
- lukeqsee 4y agoMapLibre has made really good strides (especially on the web) since the fork—3d-terrain support, more tile sources, other DX improvements (e.g., conversion to TypeScript). https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js-docs/api/ https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js-docs/api/