Any reason to import a 3rd party library for functionality built in to the
iOS SDK? Seems like work to explore/integrate a dependency where none is
needed. Without this extra work, this is something that can be built in < 1
day.



On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Cool, looks like mapbox has an iOS SDK
> <https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-ios-sdk/>.  Is there somewhere that the
> progress on funding is being tracked?  Put another way, where should I
> direct PM, design, etc. to get this prioritized?  Also, I think it'd be
> worth it to ship this to a percentage of users to (further) validate the
> feature.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Current state of affairs:  https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/  is up and
>> running, and should have all the data soon.  It uses mapbox stack, which
>> means that it generates vector data tiles, and creates a PNG tiles on the
>> fly. This also means that in a few days, you will be able to view WebGL
>> based maps there too - rendered on the browser, with multiple styles, and
>> rotatable.
>>
>> The community needs this service, and has already built a large number of
>> amazing projects even without the production-level vector service. Examples
>> include
>> * atlas-style drill-down map
>> <http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/wikipedia-clustermap_36725> (umap,
>> see more info <http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/>)
>> * Wikidata-based map of pages by class
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php?lang=en>,
>> e.g. all rollercoasters
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/kml-on-ol.php?lang=en&uselang=en&zoom=3&lat=0&lon=0&classes=204832>
>> .
>> * There is an amazing presentation
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.pdf> (pdf)
>> by Kolossos (Tim Adler), that gives many more examples of the
>> community-built map services and projects (OpenOffice format
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/docs/ICC2013-WP-OSM-white.odp>)
>>
>>
>> P.S. Tomasz, it's Yuri, not Yuvi, and don't blame IRC auto-complete  :)
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey - yes, we're workig on serving map tiles. Both raster and MapBox
>>> vectors. Our current demo implementation is at
>>> https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ - only raster tiles ATM, vectors
>>> coming in 1-2 days. The main problem, however, is budgeting - yet if we get
>>> very little hardware, concentrating on maps for apps might even be a
>>> reasonable option as apps traffic might be lower than if we exposed maps to
>>> all web users. Getting no bugdet at all is also a possible outcome, though.
>>>
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