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> I'm sure you can get lots of volunteer hackers to contribute if you throw up an MVP on github. This is quite belittling to the thousands of hours professiona
by ris 13y ago
> I'm sure you can get lots of volunteer hackers to contribute if you throw up an MVP on github.
This is quite belittling to the thousands of hours professionals have put into the OSM tools, infrastructure & interface over the years.
But this is hacker news, home of armchair pundits.
- sneak 13y agoI don't mean to belittle anyone, but I see no open source tools that consume the OSM data and output polished maps, or tools with which we can polish those maps ourselves easily. Mapbox comes to mind, but it is a proprietary service, not open source. I guess I'm wondering why enabling people to build an entirely free/oss mapbox isn't near the top of their priority list.
- Doctor_Fegg 13y agoMapbox's products are all made with open source. They're good OSS citizens in that they release all their tools under permissive licences, but perhaps more relevant is that they've hired several of the brightest coders in the OSM ecosystem. If you want to render polished maps, you use Mapnik (developed outside, creators hired by Mapbox), probably creating your stylesheets in CartoCSS (developed by Mapbox) and using the friendly TileMill wrapper for prototyping (developed by Mapbox). If you want to do routing, you use OSRM (developed outside, creator hired by Mapbox). And so on. So for your question, there absolutely is such an open source tool, and it's called Mapnik. Download it (maybe as part of TileMill) and have a play.