Agree with Corey, I've mentioned this elsewhere
<https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03395.html>,
but it's important to note that as of iOS 6
<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2012/10/02/apple-maps/>, Apple has been (and
still appears to be
<http://applemapsmarketing.com/2014/11/open-street-map-apple-maps/>) using
OSM for map data.  I don't know the rationale behind why we need our own
OSM servers, but does that rationale also prevent our iOS app from using
Apple-provided OSM data?


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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