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Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Strava. [3] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps .
Places a link to a full-page map in a box at the side of the page. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Above above Content (such as explanatory text) appearing above the links String optional Below below Content (such as explanatory text) appearing below the links String optional Left-align text text-left Set this to "yes" to change the link text from ...
Centamap – launched in 1999, Centamap is built using data from the Hong Kong Government; GeoInfo Map [1] – a geospatial information service provided by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government.
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Mapbox has defined an open standard for vector map tiles called "vector-tile-spec" which uses Google protocol buffers for space-efficient data serialisation. Web Mercator is the projection of reference, but vector tiles may be used to represent data with any projection and tile extent scheme. [7]
Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia, a list of mapping tools available on Wikipedia; Wikipedia:Why mapframe maps?, an essay about mapframe advantages; Wikipedia:Mapframe maps in infoboxes, a project page tracking implementation status; mw:Help:VisualEditor/Maps, documentation for users using the visual editor to edit maps
Mapbox.com also offers vector tiles. This new style of web mapping is resolution independent, and also has the advantage of dynamically showing and hiding features depending on the interaction. WMS servers generate maps using parameters for user options such as the order of the layers, the styling and symbolization, the extent of the data, the ...
The navigation interface provides scroll and zoom functionality similar to that of Google Maps. The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry).