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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Did we just reinvent dialup?
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
I'm not sure I want my map to be giving me recommendations. I'm definitely not certain I want my map to be able to give me better recommendations because of how much data that company has on me. I guess all the more reason to co
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
We would be happy to support this type of application! Please email me at luke@stadiamaps.com if you'd like more information pertaining to your use-case. https://stadiamaps.com
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
> Do you know of any tile service offering colored, shaded elevation reliefs? Does that imply variation in coloration based on elevation? (Just making sure I understand your question.) We have limited support for basic hillshading and ar
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Carto offers many of the same services, but their focus is more on the ability to analyze vs display data. Their big sales push is "Location Intelligence" vs simply providing various standard geoservices. I consider Carto and Mapb
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
> It's another one that has a huge upfront cost for solo devs building a commercial app ($600 / month). Yeah. :( This problem seems to extend to the whole industry. Everyone charges big bucks to even very small players. We want
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Check out one of the services that base their data on OpenStreetMap. My company ( https://stadiamaps.com ) does that. OpenMapTiles ( https://openmaptiles.org ) sells vector tiles you can use. There a many more over at h
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
We don't have Places API support, but we definitely are aiming for products from solo devs and smaller businesses at Stadia Maps. We have a few suggestions for places to look when our services have a hole. For instance, Foursquare has
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
> MapBox's WebGL based vector tile renderer was a cut above the rest. It really is. I've done a lot of work in the web with various rendering engines, and it's hard to beat the quality of MapBox GL.
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
There are more alternatives to Google & Mapbox that mostly use OpenStreetMap as a backing data source: https://openmaptiles.org (only map tiles) https://stadiamaps.com (map tiles, static maps & routing)
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
We founded Stadia Maps because we believe maps shouldn't be difficult to implement or expensive. A client was struggling with Google Maps limits and pricing, and we saw a need for simple map services with even simpler pricing. With the
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Show HN: Stadia Maps, reasonably priced map tiles, static maps, and routing(stadiamaps.com)
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
This is a shameless plug for my company, Stadia Maps. We started the company because of situations just like this. We'd be happy to talk about a much more reasonable cost. :) Please email if you're interested: luke@stadiamaps.com
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
We support cases like this by using domain names as authentication. We plan to eventually support automatic spinning off of domains into their own account (e.g., for your clients after you're finished with a project). But for now, they
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Thanks! Definitely let us know if we can help in any way. We're more than happy to build out any missing functionality you might need to make a transition.
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Show HN: Stadia Maps, reasonably priced map tiles, static maps, and routing(stadiamaps.com)
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
We also do map tiles (based on OSM), static maps, and routing. We’re a new startup this year, and one of our goals is transparent and reasonable pricing. https://stadiamaps.com
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
That makes sense; well, if you wish, please reach out to me at luke@stadiamaps.com We have a lot of customers in real estate, and would love to set you up with something that would be significantly less than $25k. These situations are why w
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
What services do you use? I'm working on a startup in this space, and I could definitely recommend a set of services that replace Google for much cheaper (even if you didn't use us ;) ).
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
There are a few free alternatives to Google: arcgis has a free place suggestions API: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/geocode/api-reference/geo... OpenCageData is pretty good for geocoding with a good free
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by lukeqsee 8y ago
Shameless plug: https://stadiamaps.com We do map tiles and static maps, along with basic routing.
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
I can second this. We run significant bandwidth from you guys to Linode, and this would help immensely in a few of our applications. We also use Digital Ocean, so they'd be our second choice; however, I doubt they'll be willing
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
That makes a lot of sense to me. I wonder if there's a cryptographically secure way to build a known "stream" of one-use tokens (addresses, if you will) based on known "public key." For metadata security, you only h
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
> something about Bloom Filters or PGP Signatures or something, I dunno Would this not defeat the purpose? Once an individual was tied to a unique piece of data, they'd be tied to all data in the stream. I think such a system would
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying blockchain tech is “tulip bulbs”. The concern is Bitcoin (an instance of blockchain tech), et al., are not all the proponents claim them to be. I’m convinced the blockchain is here to stay. Bitcoin? Not so muc
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Getting 1200+ upvotes on Product Hunt and why it's worth it(indiehackers.com)
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
This is fantastic! I need to use it for a bit, but this might just replace tsql (finally!). Some feedback: I wasn't able to figure out how to mark something as favorite (no star icon, right clicking a table doesn't show an option)
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
I've assumed since the exploits were published that viable attacks existed to exploit them. Does that make me too cynical? Of what advantage is it for attackers to publish that they are using a particular exploit? Especially due to the
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Show HN: Stadia Maps: simple, affordable maps for every app
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by lukeqsee 9y ago
I read it as "Apple, Berkshire and JPMorgan" at first, and I was very excited to see such a customer-first company finally taking on healthcare. Then I read the top comment and saw Bezos. Oh. It's Amazon. I do not want my med

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