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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > IRC: bgerstle > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Corey Floyd Software Engineer Mobile Apps / iOS Wikimedia Foundation
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