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by mourner 5y ago
Thank you so much for your support! Every little donation or even retweet helps.
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by mourner 5y ago
Vladimir Agafonkin here. Thanks for posting this! I'll be happy to answer any questions about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and current Ukrainian reality here whenever I get the chance.
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by mourner 5y ago
The original (HoMM3 + expansions + HD mod) does run perfectly fine with Porting Kit, including current versions of MacOS.
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by mourner 5y ago
This was my favorite part too! I think we should start a tradition of adding those to every devlog.
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by mourner 5y ago
Unlikely — the feature is designed around vector rendering.
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by mourner 5y ago
Yes, but there’s a difference between a consumer app and an SDK for developers. Changing the default this drastically is a breaking change.
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by mourner 5y ago
Exactly — this would require reprojecting on every frame, which is too expensive, while we designed the feature to only do this once when loading a tile.
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by mourner 5y ago
The videos show some extreme cases of this transition, but in practice it feels pretty natural when interacting with the map. Also, we'll definitely continue tweaking it to feel better. It's nearly impossible to make it fully smoo
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by mourner 5y ago
While we're working on a similar feature (globe view [1]), there's a debate on whether it should be turned on by default. Apple Maps adopting it by default is a good argument in favor! [1] https://github.com/mapbox
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by mourner 5y ago
Definitely something we want to explore more, although it's quite a challenge since most map data distribution systems including ours are built around Mercator tiles, which can't show anything beyond ~85 latitude degrees.
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by mourner 5y ago
Yes, this is on our top list of issues to fix! https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/11158
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by mourner 5y ago
Here's a live demo from our examples: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/projections/ We decided to go with live videos to demonstrate the concepts in motion, and because embedding WebGL vector
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by mourner 5y ago
While we have that feature coming too, in short, there are many cases where we want to see the whole world at once. Expanded on this in a comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541230
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by mourner 5y ago
Globe view (orthographic projection) is coming to GL JS too![1] It had to be implemented differently (rendering to textures and then mapping them on a 3D mesh), but it should be quite fast. https://github.com/mapbox/map
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by mourner 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Good point about autoplay — the current behavior is what we get when disabling controls in Vimeo embeds; worth checking if it's possible to detect whether autoplay is off, and switch the controls on if so.
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by mourner 5y ago
I'm the author of the article — happy to see this upvoted, feel free to ask any questions about web maps!
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by mourner 5y ago
Yes, exactly! Globe view doesn't work when you want to show the whole world at once, which is useful for climate visualizations, political maps etc. Also, many organizations, especially governments and news media, often have their own
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era(mapbox.com)
327 points by mourner 5y ago|54 comments
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era(mapbox.com)
12 points by mourner 5y ago|0 comments
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by mourner 5y ago
I haven't looked closely into all available plugins, but it seems that you can quickly find suitable options by searching for "leaflet wind" and "leaflet hexbin".
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by mourner 5y ago
This depends on the scientific purpose. For most cases, I'd say yes, but I'm biased, and OpenLayers has the advantage of having all possible features baked in, if you can tolerate the complexity and bloat.
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by mourner 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words, that's really nice to hear!
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by mourner 5y ago
Simply `<img>` elements should be fine for most use cases. WebGL could be used if you need much more fine grained control over the rendering — e.g. custom resampling when resizing like Lanczos filter, special effects, etc. It could al
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by mourner 5y ago
Leaflet avoids all the complexity by relying on all the rendering done on the server, while all it has to do is load images. Rendering vector data on the browser with the level of detalization necessary for modern cartography (hundreds of t
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by mourner 5y ago
This is definitely something we want to leave to plugins, since it’s technically involved, there are multiple ways to go about it with different trade-offs, and it’s not necessary for most use cases. There are multiple plugins for it though
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by mourner 5y ago
This should be fixed in the master version, we just didn't get our hands on making a patch release yet.
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by mourner 5y ago
I'm the original author of Leaflet, ask me anything! Very happy every time I see it shared on the HN frontpage. If you're curious about the story behind Leaflet and how and why it was born 10 years ago, here's a short 13-minu
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by mourner 5y ago
I'm the original author of Leaflet and also (as of last 8 years) core developer of Mapbox GL JS. Not pursuing vector rendering in Leaflet is intentional — it's designed to be extremely small, simple and lightweight. Vector map ren
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by mourner 5y ago
Remember Skype? At some point it was the default messenger of most people I know. Then it progressively got worse after being bought by Microsoft, and culminated in a "redesign" which among thousands of bugs also added Snapchat-li
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by mourner 5y ago
Or, you could help us fix the issue so that all Mapbox maps work great for you? Could you record a screencap of this issue and submit a GitHub ticket? We honestly have never seen anything like this ever reported.

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