sbma44

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by sbma44 1y ago
Didn't mean to imply that tiling is trivial--our initial business model was focused on taking care of that difficulty for our customers, after all, and it wouldn't have made sense if we didn't think we were delivering value.
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by sbma44 1y ago
hey, longtime Mapbox employee here. I appreciate all the work you're doing here to help people wrap their heads around vector tiles! This is an old technology at this point, and as you've explained, there are robust tools for movi
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by sbma44 3y ago
original demo & internal engineering blog post for the popular vector mapping library
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10 Years of Mapbox GL(mapbox.com)
4 points by sbma44 3y ago|1 comments
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Mapbox launches mobile SDKs with 3D(mapbox.com)
2 points by sbma44 6y ago|0 comments
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Keeping the National Agricultural Imagery Program Data Free and Open(blog.mapbox.com)
4 points by sbma44 9y ago|0 comments
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by sbma44 11y ago
In general the OSM community errs on the side of vetoing new initiatives -- doing an import properly means raising it on the mailing lists, which invariably attracts vastly more criticism than assistance. Even coordinated (non-automated) re
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by sbma44 11y ago
I'm the guy who imported the Queensland and Victoria addresses, and I've been in touch with members of the government in Canberra who are leading out this effort. The new release should supersede the existing Australian datasource
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the OpenAddresses Project now has 100+ million free and open address points(mapbox.com)
3 points by sbma44 12y ago|0 comments
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Sunlight Foundation hits 1B API calls, plans giveaway(sunlightfoundation.com)
2 points by sbma44 13y ago|0 comments
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Using Raspberry Pi to measure new lobbyists in DC(sunlightfoundation.com)
1 points by sbma44 13y ago|1 comments
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Announcing Superfastmatch - a FOSS tool for finding overlap between documents(sunlightlabs.com)
12 points by sbma44 15y ago|1 comments
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Why Aren't There More Open Data Startups?(sunlightlabs.com)
3 points by sbma44 16y ago|0 comments
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by sbma44 16y ago
>Repeat until you have some useful output. Do you really think that's how useful work is accomplished? The point of TFA is that there aren't as many problems in need of brute forcing as we'd like to believe. In truth, most important pro
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Break Glass in Case of Google Turning Evil(sunlightlabs.com)
16 points by sbma44 16y ago|4 comments
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Ten Principles for Open Data(sunlightfoundation.com)
1 points by sbma44 16y ago|0 comments
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by sbma44 17y ago
Sure, but that's much less fun. (and this router is currently only $60 shipped from Newegg -- that, plus maybe $10 worth of Radioshack components).