mousebirdc

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by mousebirdc 6y ago
For those competitors who still exist, maybe a little. But once a solution is entrenched and it isn't tooooo onerous, developers won't switch away.
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by mousebirdc 6y ago
It won't make much difference. The damage is done, Mapbox has remade the community in its image and we can only live in that world.
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by mousebirdc 6y ago
Oh come on Tom. Making a great, free toolkit utterly decimated the competition. Just completely destroyed any funding for a competitor. And I should know. I believe that you believe this is well intentioned, but it had a very negative im
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by mousebirdc 6y ago
Can someone confirm this? Do you need an actual Mapbox token to even run an offline map from data you've downloaded off of, say, Maptiler?
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by mousebirdc 6y ago
We make a competitor to MapboxGL for mobile called WhirlyGlobe-Maply ( https://mousebird.github.io/WhirlyGlobe/ ). It supports vector tiles & Mapbox style sheets, works on Android and iOS, even supporting Metal on
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by mousebirdc 7y ago
Hi, I make the toolkit that Dark Sky (and others) use for their visuals. Been in the weather/aviation mobile space a long time. I'd floated a Weather-Service-In-A-Box to my clients a few months ago, but got no takers. The idea w
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by mousebirdc 11y ago
From a technical perspective, Apple Maps is fine. There are some data problems, but then it's a gigantic task. The perception that every map app must be google maps is honestly part of the problem. A winner take all approach is not w
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by mousebirdc 11y ago
How Apple could make geospatial apps (maps, mostly) faster, better & cooler to develop.
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Hey Apple, let's make better Map apps(mousebirdconsulting.blogspot.com)
1 points by mousebirdc 11y ago|3 comments
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by mousebirdc 13y ago
This is a tutorial I put together for OpenGL ES 2.0 addressing a few things I run into displaying geospatial data (maps, globes).
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OpenGL ES Tutorial with a Geospatial Bent(mousebirdconsulting.blogspot.com)
1 points by mousebirdc 13y ago|1 comments
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Open source globe and map library for iOS(mousebirdconsulting.blogspot.com)
4 points by mousebirdc 13y ago|0 comments