Le projet de cartographie open-source Mapzen relancé sous l’égide de la Urban Computing Foundation

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  • Post Mortem III · Mapzen
    https://mapzen.com/blog/a-letter-just-to-you

    Mapzen had a mandate to work only on open software and data, a very rare opportunity. Usually, companies that pursue open software or data draw a strategic line about what will be open and what will be proprietary. This makes a lot of sense; it was the case at my previous companies and will certainly be the case at my next company. But some kind of open strategy remains critical in mapping, a field dominated by incumbents who have invested billions of dollars and who use their advantages to restrict products across many industries. No one can compete in mapping at this point without embracing some collaborative efforts. At Mapzen, we went to the extreme and drew the line at near-zero proprietary elements, basically just this website and some operational code that didn’t make sense to publish.

    Would I undertake this strategy again?

    #logiciel_libre #open_data #cartographie #mapzen #post-mortem @b_b

    • Merci pour le ping :)

      I’m very happy that Mapbox hired this team and will continue the work around Valhalla in conjunction with their other navigation services.

      what a surprise :p

      Also we’ll announce some exciting developments for our search and vector tiles services before we close later this week, so watch this space. Spoiler alert: all of our work will continue to be supported and accessible to all.

      \o/ (osm ?)

    • Mapzen « de retour »...

      La plateforme de cartographie open-source Mapzen a une histoire compliquée. D’une part, Mapzen est utilisé par plus de 70 000 développeurs et constitue l’épine dorsale de services cartographiques tels que OpenStreetMap, Remix et Carto. Mais, en tant qu’entreprise, Mapzen a échoué en 2018. Le service survit donc en tant que projet de la Linux Foundation.

      Et voici qu’à présent le projet passe dans les mains de la Urban Computing Foundation (UCF), un autre groupe de la Linux Foundation avec plus de ressources. L’UCF se consacre à aider à créer des villes plus intelligentes, des transports multimodaux et des véhicules autonomes.

      Au sein de l’UCF, Mapzen bénéficiera du soutien de membres tels que Facebook, Google et Uber. Ses développeurs pourront y collaborer et construire un ensemble commun d’outils open-source à destination des villes, les véhicules autonomes et les infrastructures intelligentes.
      Il s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet UCF Kepler.gl, un outil d’analyse géospatiale open source pour le Big Data.

      https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/le-projet-de-cartographie-open-source-mapzen-relance-sous-l-egide-de-la-urban-