underdark
For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles. Basemap.at Standard WMTS in QGIS (instructions here) For a few weeks now, there is an additional service by BEV: Their...
AlternativeTransport
After 40 years without having a transit network diagram for all bus and tramway lines, but instead relying on a route map superimposed over a city map, Vienna’s Wiener Linien commissioned a network transit diagram in 2016. In comparison to the old diagrams in use until the 1970s, the new diagram...
andrewxhill
Classifying Torque maps is a neuron-twister. They are essentially rasters, but they regenerate based on zoom and respond to headers defined on the fly by the users. They resemble vector points when you finally see them. I dunno, they are kinda Point-based Vector Tiles with built in simplification…...
andrewxhill
The future of cartography wont be defined by you The origin of CartoDB is a curious story, but it can be summed up nicely as a collective of environmentalists, technolgists, and designers that decided maps shouldn’t remain difficult to create just because old school software hadn’t been brought...