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A few of us are working on this -
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><a href="https://www.maphaven.com" class="">https://www.maphaven.com</a></div>
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<div class="">Map services with the profits going to open mapping.</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 7, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Tobias Zwick <<a href="mailto:osm@westnordost.de" class="">osm@westnordost.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Hey guys<br class="">
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Some of you already read it on weekly, Mapzen is shutting down. This is<br class="">
very sad news for the new year, as they were working on many promising<br class="">
open-source services around OpenStreetMap.<br class="">
I don't have the best overview, but their main product was the vector<br class="">
map, so amongst the most important projects were<br class="">
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+ tangram and tangram ES (GL vector maps for web, embedded, mobile etc)<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/tangrams" class="">https://github.com/tangrams</a><br class="">
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+ vector-datasource (Vector tile service)<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/tilezen" class="">https://github.com/tilezen</a><br class="">
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+ Valhalla (routing engine)<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/valhalla" class="">https://github.com/valhalla</a><br class="">
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+ Pelias (geocoder)<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/pelias/pelias/" class="">https://github.com/pelias/pelias/</a><br class="">
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(did I forget anything?)<br class="">
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With the company being in dissolution and the developers forced to find<br class="">
other jobs, all the work done in the last few years might be for the<br class="">
birds if these repositories will no longer maintained.<br class="">
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I read we do not have to worry about the Valhalla team and project, they<br class="">
found a new home at MapBox.<br class="">
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Also, I read today that the maintainers of Pelias announced this week,<br class="">
that they will not shut it down. Full statement here:<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/pelias/pelias/tree/master/announcements/2018-01-02-pelias-update" class="">https://github.com/pelias/pelias/tree/master/announcements/2018-01-02-pelias-update</a><br class="">
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But the future of Mapzen's main product, both the vector tile server and<br class="">
tangram is what I am worried for. With Mapzen's tile services shutting<br class="">
down along with everything else, the demos [1] will not work anymore and<br class="">
people who want to use tangram will need to set up an own tileserver for<br class="">
that, which is something the fewest would do with the easy alternative,<br class="">
MapBox (and others? Or are there no more other competitors?).<br class="">
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Perhaps some people from the team/company are on this list and can share<br class="">
their view on how or if these projects can continue and maybe how we as<br class="">
a community could help.<br class="">
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Greetings<br class="">
Tobias<br class="">
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P.S: Not sure if I should post this also on the dev mailinglist?<br class="">
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[1] http://tangrams.github.io/tangram/<br class="">
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