randyme

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Add real-world maps to your game(gamasutra.com)
1 points by randyme 10y ago|0 comments
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Vector maps for augmented reality applications(mapzen.com)
1 points by randyme 10y ago|0 comments
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Transit Nerds Get a Handy New Tool for Easily Turning Data into Apps(wired.com)
1 points by randyme 10y ago|0 comments
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by randyme 11y ago
OpenAddresses is a directory of publicly available address lists provided by government agencies at various levels. It's designed to be bulk imported by machine. Many addresses exist in OSM. But there's a preference from the OSM c
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by randyme 11y ago
They're great and we have many friends at both companies. Our main goal is to get map data and software into the open so others working toward that goal are not really competitors. If there's overlap, I don't see why that&#x2
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by randyme 11y ago
Nominatim, which I worked with at MapQuest Open when it launched, is a great geocoder for purely OSM data. We built Pelias ( https://github.com/pelias ) at Mapzen because Nominatim is not built to handle autocomplete. We also
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by randyme 11y ago
Mapzen uses only open data, in particular OpenStreetMap and OpenAddresses ( http://openaddresses.io/ ). This means anyone can improve the results and always have access to the data if something's missing.
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Watch Live Satellites Passing Above You(prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com)
3 points by randyme 11y ago|0 comments
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A Mesmerizing 3-D Vision of New York as Pure Data(citylab.com)
1 points by randyme 11y ago|1 comments
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WebGL graphical shader tribute to Ryoji Ikeda(prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com)
10 points by randyme 11y ago|4 comments
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by randyme 11y ago
Yes -- if you're at State of the Map US in NYC this weekend, we'll be demoing it live. Stay tuned.
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by randyme 11y ago
There is no proprietary component, if you want to self-host it's all here: https://github.com/valhalla But there is a free hosted service (with API signup) for convenience.
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Macaulay-style drawn cities(tangrams.github.io)
1 points by randyme 11y ago|0 comments
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by randyme 12y ago
Search Product Manager - New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin At Mapzen we take a different approach to the core components of mapping: open source, open data, open access. We make modular tools for building better maps because we believ
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WebGL Ghost Map(mapzen.com)
2 points by randyme 12y ago|0 comments
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by randyme 12y ago
Nominatim is not built to handle autocomplete, which is a requirement for many consumer apps. Thus the focus on Lucene, where you get that for free, instead of building your own fulltext search on top of PostGIS.