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by burritojustice 9y ago
We use data from OpenStreetMap, meaning you can edit and update information wherever you are, and changes will appear on the map in a matter of days.
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by burritojustice 9y ago
Yes -- at the bottom of the post we show how you can use our mapzen.js library to draw routes on a map. If you know Leaflet it's relatively straightforward.
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by burritojustice 9y ago
Hi! I'm with Mapzen. Setting `use_roads` to zero means a preference for using roads tagged in OpenStreetMap that have bike infrastructure, as opposed to roads without bike lanes. We don't route on sidewalks, and will avoid paths t
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by burritojustice 9y ago
Hi! I'm with Mapzen. Yes, the default for `bicycle` are now 0.25. If you're familiar with Leaflet, it's also pretty easy to draw routes in mapzen.js and pass different parameters to the router -- check the bottom of that post
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by burritojustice 10y ago
Hi! Nathaniel and John from Mapzen here. We thought a lot about the colors for the new bike map. Green is pretty universal for trails and paths where bicycles are protected from cars. But colors are less standardized for places where bicycl
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Localizing नक्शे ನಕ್ಷೆಗಳು মানচিত্র நிலப்படம் નકશા नकाशे maps in Indian languages(mapzen.com)
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Libpostal API: international address parsing via machine learning(mapzen.com)
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Building Pipelined Parallelized HTTP SOAs on ZMQ via ASCII Art(mapzen.com)
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by burritojustice 10y ago
hey eean -- that's on our roadmap! We can already route by bike, and by BART. Multimodal Bike+BART would basically look and act like the walking + transit directions we have now. Drop us a line at hello@mapzen.com and we'll let yo
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by burritojustice 10y ago
Hey, I'm with Mapzen, let me know if you have any questions. We're importing GTFS feeds from multiple transit agencies and serving them via a single API via our Transit.land project. We then pass the data into Turn-by-Turn, our op
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by burritojustice 11y ago
A great question. That's why we make all the underlying source code open, including chef and docker config info for people to build it themselves if they want or need to. https://github.com/valhalla/ We at Mapzen
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by burritojustice 11y ago
open > proprietary: If you want routing (and elevation and a time-distance matrix) based on open data, via an API with liberal licensing, all based on open source code that you could run yourself if you wanted, you may want to take a loo