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WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2015-05-12 · latest 2025-09-04

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  1. …and bespoke). It was actually Tangram, not OpenLayers, that I was thinking of that supports it: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram?tab=readme-ov-file#vecto... >MVT is a technology built on and for S3-like services. It's interesting that…
    comment by stevage · 2025-09-04 · in How to build vector tiles from scratch
  2. Personally I'm much more confused by the existence of https://github.com/tangrams/tangram .
  3. …can spur some competition among open source renderers. I’d recommend taking a look at: * Tangram: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram - another WebGL based renderer with some key advantages over MapboxGL JS such as custom shaders and…
  4. Specific map rendering projects from mapzen: Web Renderer: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram Native/Mobile Renderer: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-es Native renderer can be accessed for android through gradle, ios through cocoapods…
  5. …about how to use Tangram here: - intro: https://mapzen.com/projects/tangram - documentation: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram/wiki
    comment by drewda · 2015-05-12 · in 3D matrix map