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blog.nobugware.com
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| | | | Maps are fun, self hosted maps are awesome ! Serving world maps was reserved to big companies like Google, thanks to the OpenStreetMap project, we now have access to an open world of data. Generating Tiles MapBox (and others) worked hard to create a vector format bundled in a SQLite file: mbtiles format. It's vector based as opposed to older raster maps containing 256x256 PNG images. The Openmaptiles folks did a great job automating the map generation. | |
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www.societyworks.org
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| | | | Microsoft is now retiring its Bing Maps API, which we have used on fixmystreet.com and some other instances for many years, and so we have now switched these to use the OS Maps API - in instances where we do not have PSGA access, we use OS OpenData served from our own tile server for more zoomed in | |
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www.mysociety.org
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| | | | This post explains how various aspects of the new FixMyStreet maps work, including how we supply our own OS StreetView tile server and how the maps work without JavaScript. | |
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eclipse-foundation.blog
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| | Summary of progress to date and implications of the agreement between Eclipse and Oracle on Jakarta EE and use of Java trademarks and the javax namespace. Introduction The migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation has been an enormous effort on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation staff and the many contributors, committers, members, and... |