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The title is wrong, as this is not Google's maps, but the beautiful and much more responsive Mapbox maps. Please fix your title. Also it is high time for every

by larodi 1y ago

The title is wrong, as this is not Google's maps, but the beautiful and much more responsive Mapbox maps. Please fix your title. Also it is high time for everyone to understand that not every map out there is goog's and more importantly - there are at least 5 providers of mappings software that do it either better or likewise well, and these guys' work needs to be respected. In fact it is very likely that gmaps would rate very low if one is to rank it considering usability (APIs including), licensing, speed and quality of the render.

1659447091 1y ago
The “the” and the “of” are of more importance in this particular sequence/structure: => “the X of Y” the Google Maps is being used to frame or position the sites intent of a data rich maps site of Roman Roads
- isolli 1y ago
  Fair point, but respecting the page's own title would have been better and avoided much confusion (just look at the comments here): "Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads"
  - lysace 1y ago
    I don’t see many people being confused.
Freak_NL 1y ago
This is partly the fault of the researchers themselves for not including any attribution to OpenStreetMap, even though they are using OpenStreetMap data to render everything but the Roman roads.
- larodi 1y ago
  And this is important stuff, as people should respect and pay proper attribution to those working painstakingly to actually enable everyone with all the wonderful mapping libs and content. And Goog does none of this to deserve any credit.
  - Freak_NL 1y ago
    Especially since their own licence for this project's data (the Roman roads), is CC-BY. Itiner-e: the digital atlas of ancient roads © 2024 by Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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