mapbox/mapbox-gl-js on Hacker News

Good. Brave's fiddling with WebGL causes >50% of my bug reports from 1% of users. [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10518 [2] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/8377

comment by plantain · 2024-01-23 · in Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections

…a mapbox-gl-js discussion on the use of custom dems/encodings (after which anything is possible): https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10775

comment by somishere · 2022-04-22 · in The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)

…with some code Mapbox changed the license of their code last year I think to a proprietary one. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/LICENSE.txt It requires a mapbox user license with billing enabled to use this code, let alone…

comment by thinkingemote · 2021-12-13 · in Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

…should be turned on by default. Apple Maps adopting it by default is a good argument in favor! [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10784

comment by mourner · 2021-12-13 · in Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

Yes, this is on our top list of issues to fix! https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/11158

comment by mourner · 2021-12-13 · in Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

…(rendering to textures and then mapping them on a 3D mesh), but it should be quite fast. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10784

comment by mourner · 2021-12-13 · in Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

…scroll zoom on Firefox under Linux before. We'd be happy to fix this after hearing more details. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues

comment by mourner · 2021-06-23 · in Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork

…a number of more in-depth explanations why this is a bad thing for most users of the software: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162

comment by Freak_NL · 2021-04-03 · in MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher (“Mapbox Web SDK”) must be used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and…

comment by slibhb · 2021-04-03 · in MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

…mapbox isn't open source anymore, now you're (and lots of other peoplare) are stuck pre-2.0.0 :( https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/CHANGELOG.m...

comment by rckclmbr · 2021-01-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?

…[2] https://opensource.org/osd [3] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/ [4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js [5] https://theia-ide.org/

comment by jraph · 2021-01-14 · in Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

Thanks! We're going to look into that soon https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/9945

comment by mourner · 2020-12-09 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

…Map Load to the Mapbox account owner. The license terms make no distinction between data sources." https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162 > Mapbox GL JS v1.x.x: A map load occurs whenever a Mapbox GL JS Map object is…

comment by tuukkah · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

Right. Here is the link: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162

comment by easbar · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

When was it open source? This is from 2014 https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/3727f6f012866f77...

comment by lucideer · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

…This license terminates automatically if a user no longer has an active Mapbox account. See: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

comment by contravariant · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

Link to the new LICENSE terms https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/v2.0.0/LICENSE.t... IANAL, but it seems you can only use the library if you have an active account, and you can still modify the code except billing and analytics.…

comment by cprecioso · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

…data sources. They're charging for Mapbox GL JS, even if you don't actually use their tiles. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162

comment by lights0123 · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

…SDK." "This license terminates automatically if a user no longer has an active Mapbox account." - https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

comment by pella · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

…data sources. They're charging for Mapbox GL JS, even if you don't actually use their tiles. [0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/c7ed000f6d628531... [1]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162

comment by lights0123 · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

▲ 4

MapBox GL JavaScript v2

story by brncsk · 2020-12-08 · 1 comment

▲ 301

Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

story by tuukkah · 2020-12-08 · 188 comments

Maybe looking at MapBox's OpenGL renderer: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js or https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native would be worthwhile.

comment by blcArmadillo · 2020-02-04 · in Ask HN: Resources for learning about map rendering?

…worker that has a fetch event listener that puts you in front of the raw tile data being cached. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/4326 From their you can serialize/deserialize the whole tile and map a new field (annoying), or…

comment by murphy214 · 2020-01-03 · in Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS

▲ 1

Memory keeps increasing with each zoom interaction on Safari browser

story by teej · 2019-12-19 · 0 comments

Note: I didn't create Mapbox GL, I'm just a part of the core team: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/graphs/contributors Don't have any particular OpenLayers examples in mind at the moment but it's very heavily used in government,…

comment by mourner · 2019-12-10 · in OpenLayers

…(more complex) with vector output which is usually rendered in the client, e.g. in the browser ( https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js ) Later Google decided to skip NavTec and created their own database. They already had the StreeView…

comment by mtmail · 2019-12-10 · in Ask HN: How was Google maps made?

…that compare Earcut (also one of my libraries) to C++ and AssemblyScript WebAssembly ports: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/4835 (in short, mostly slower than JS) Another anecdotal example is that C++ and Rust ports of…

comment by mourner · 2018-10-10 · in Flatbush: A very fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles in JS

…about rendering performance and do a lot of open-source work in the GPU vector graphics space; e.g. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js I've always enjoyed chatting with their engineers about vector graphics stuff. :)

comment by pcwalton · 2018-05-08 · in How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

Check out https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/4679 Also try on a different browser.

comment by omn1 · 2018-01-24 · in Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb

…to see if this is something that's feasible to build with Web APIs such as IndexedDB. [0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js

comment by jfirebaugh · 2016-03-16 · in Offline mobile maps from Mapbox

…than running directly on your GPU. Could you please share more details about your system on Github? https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/new

comment by kkaefer · 2014-08-07 · in Mapbox GL for the Web

This looks like a bug. I filed a ticket and we'll take a look. Thanks for the details! https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/652

comment by jfirebaugh · 2014-08-07 · in Mapbox GL for the Web