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Radar CEO here. Welcome any questions or feedback!
by nickpatrick 3y ago
Radar CEO here. Welcome any questions or feedback!
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoHow much is this compared to Google maps?
- nickpatrick 3y agoMore details in the post, but Google starts at $7 per 1K map loads and $5 per 1K geocoding API requests, whereas Radar starts at $0.50 per 1K for both. We've roughly been helping our enterprise customers cut their maps bill in half.
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoHey that is a fantastic price. I'll check it out, thx
- hackernewds 3y agoHow can you afford to be 10x cheaper? Google being overkill?
- nickpatrick 3y agoYou can charge a lot when you're #1.
- coder543 3y agoGoogle raised prices by 10x or 20x a few years ago, if I remember correctly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029
- Waterluvian 3y agoWould you consider an API for “style your own basemap” with your vector data? I sometimes find myself caring about if the basemaps look good and fit my use case more than the API cost.
- nickpatrick 3y agoPotentially! We're still big fans of Mapbox for highly styled maps. We've just found that Mapbox and Google are overkill for many of our customers.
- kocheez75 3y agoThe maps are based on MapLibre (Mapbox fork) so any valid Mapbox style can also be applied.
- pcl 3y agoHow does your POI database compare to Google's?
- nickpatrick 3y agoGoogle is the gold standard, but our coverage is quite good in the US. We incorporate a mix of open and commercial datasets both for POI and address data.
- pcl 3y agoHow would you say you measure up in Europe? How about compared to Apple?
- nickpatrick 3y agoStill pretty good in Europe, but more of a gap. International coverage will be a priority in 2024.
- whynotmaybe 3y agoThe map isn't visible on my devices. I have a pihole on my network and the "stock" block list contains api.radar.io The list https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
- nickpatrick 3y agoThat's a pretty aggressive list...
- f3d46600-b66e 3y ago+1, didn't work for me either. There's dozens of us!
- 4ndrewl 3y agoHere to say the same. Thought it was borked on mobile, but I'm guessing it's pihole.
- stblack 3y agoHi! I maintain that list and its variants. The list is for people who don't want to be tracked by third parties. That's who we serve, and that's why we do what we do. Based on this... https://radar.com/pricing https://radar.com/pricing ... note the "tracked users" feature, unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to change.
- hackernewds 3y agowhy is radar blocked..
- whynotmaybe 3y agoNo idea, api.radar.io is on the block list since January 2020. The commit's comment is "major update from adaway.org" https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts/commit/4fa0470 https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts/commit/4fa0470
- jakecopp 3y agoAs an OpenStreetMap contributor I really appreciate the proper attribution you have in the bottom right, rather than hiding it behind a button like Mapbox and some others do - thanks! https://github.com/matkoniecz/illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap https://github.com/matkoniecz/illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoThere’s no attribution that I can see on the second embedded map on the page (on mobile). A honking great Radar logo, but no OSM attribution. This trend of “our branding takes priority over the required attribution for the free map data we’re using, but hey, they’re a little nonprofit so can’t afford to sue us” really ticks me off. Mapbox started it as a calculated move, and since then others have followed claiming it’s “the standard”. But in this case I’ll assume good faith for now and hope it’s fixed. A simple “© OSM” would be fine.
- nickpatrick 3y agoShould be showing a collapsible ⓘ button on very small screens. We'll take a look and fix.
- amluto 3y agoThe example map of New York on the linked page has rather odd labeled places and street names. At the default zoom, it’s marked up as if New York, Hoboken, Weehawken, etc are literal points marked by tiny circles. This is particularly silly in the New York area, which is a continuous gridded metropolitan area. Then, when zooming in, you have to zoom very very far in before street names show up. This makes a map zoomed slightly less far in mostly useless, because you can’t tell where you are. I realize that people mostly don’t navigate by map any more, but if you are literally selling map tiles, presumably mostly not tied to the end user’s GPS, then whoever is looking at the map would like to know where they’re looking. For example, in Manhattan, the actual useful coordinates are the cross-streets, and the map is not very helpful without the street names.
- nickpatrick 3y agoAppreciate the feedback. We're working on showing the right level of detail at different zoom levels for the different map styles. cc @kocheez75