maps huh?
•a bunch of square pictures
•drag them with a mouse
•put some icons on top
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PFF
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Let’s build a
mapping library
from scratch!
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no way you could do that
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creating a web map in 2008
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You’re wasting time
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building from scratch;
didn’t tell anyone
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Web Maps Lite
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born as a protest against
bloat, clutter and complexity
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the number one mapping
library in the world*
*because the guy didn’t know shit about maps
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•extremely lightweight and simple
•extremely easy to get started
•huge community, tons of plugins
•stable as a mountain
•works everywhere (i.e. legacy browsers)
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raster tiles era
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OpenLayers
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• maps as background
• mostly static
• top-down, north-oriented
• a rigid set of zoom levels
• some simple vectors/icons on top
• conceptually the same as 14 years ago
Web maps status quo:
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Mapbox vision for maps:
living, breathing, fluid, rich, powerful experiences
that make you feel connected to the world
Games did it for decades; why not maps?
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Evolution of The Elder Scrolls
2002 2006 2011
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Evolution of web maps
2002 2006 2011
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Digital maps before:
exclusively web tech
Digital maps now:
native mobile apps + web
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Browsers before:
display a bunch of text and images
Browsers now:
anything is possible