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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 .
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]
Formulas for the Web Mercator are fundamentally the same as for the standard spherical Mercator, but before applying zoom, the "world coordinates" are adjusted such that the upper left corner is (0, 0) and the lower right corner is ( , ): [7] = ⌊ (+) ⌋ = ⌊ ( [ (+)]) ⌋ where is the longitude in radians and is geodetic latitude in radians.
XYZ Tiles coordinate numbers. Properties of tiled web maps that require convention or standards include the size of tiles, the numbering of zoom levels, the projection to use, the way individual tiles are numbered or otherwise identified, and the method for requesting them.
Maps.me is a mobile app for Android, iOS and BlackBerry that provides offline maps using OpenStreetMap data. It was formerly known as MapsWithMe.In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand.
Leaflet is open source, and is developed by Volodymyr Agafonkin, who joined Mapbox in 2013. [4] Leaflet is an open-source, JavaScript-based library for creating interactive maps. It was created in 2011 by Volodymyr Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen. [5] It covers a wide range of features a developer would need in creating interactive maps.
On 11 July 2016, MapQuest discontinued its open tile API, [19] [20] and users such as GNOME Maps were switched to a temporarily free tier of the Mapbox tileserver, [21] while considering alternatives. [22] In 2019, Verizon Media sold Mapquest to System1. [23] [24]
Example of a Mapbox map In order to create an interactive map in an article, you need to have one of the below forms of data: coordinates, either supplied or from Wikidata