ericrwolfe

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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
If you click through to the Twitter thread, there is a very active discussion and there still seems to be a lot of disagreement within the OpenStreetMap community on the topic of attribution, particularly on mobile. Footpath uses the Mapbox
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Yes! An Android version will be coming later this year.
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
The end goal of the apps are very similar, though Footpath places a greater emphasis on the route building + editing UI, as well as what you can do with map layers. One aspect of EasyRoute that is pretty awesome is its support for exporting
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Full disclosure: Footpath does currently collect an analytics event when a screenshot gesture is invoked (absolutely no screenshot data) to decide whether to present a share prompt, and it had the unintended side effect of revealing suspi
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate the support.
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
One of Strava's largest competitors actually reached out a few years ago interested in licensing Footpath's tech, but we decided not to move forward on the deal for various reasons. I'm not so worried about any of the above p
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Yeah, while Strava copied Footpath's flashy demo, they kind of missed the point of how people actually plan routes. Most Footpath users have specific routes in mind and prefer zooming + panning to draw their route in multiple, shorter
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Creator of Footpath here. I didn't know this was possible either until I looked up the suspicious IP from the logs: https://www.ip2location.com/demo/12.131.20.242
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by ericrwolfe 8y ago
Creator of Footpath ( http://footpathapp.com ) here. The main point I wanted to reiterate in all of this is not so much that Strava copied Footpath. The issue as I see it is that Strava is being misleading in saying they came up w