Re: Mapbox status

[Marcus Lundblad <ml update uu se>]

fre 2018-01-05 klockan 15:37 +0000 skrev Neil McGovern:
> In the short term, we're having our access extended on a month-by-
> month 
> basis while we work out a more permanent solution. Big thanks to
> MapBox
> for this offer. We're working with MapBox to see what the cost of the
> pay-as-you-go plan would be, and are trying to see how that could be
> affordable for the Foundation.
>
> > Long term: if we can continue with MapBox or another service
> > provider,
> > are other GNOME apps also allowed to use this service (and the JSON
> > service file of Maps)? I'm asking this as the GNOME Contacts
> > maintainer, as the app sorely needs to look into updating its code
> > displaying maps. I'm at a point where I'm even considering
> > (temporarily) ripping that feature out as it's leading to crashes
> > for
> > some people.
>
> I'm not sure about the specifics for this, but AIUI, we have a GNOME
> redirector in place so in theory, we should have something more
> stable
> even if we do switch providers. I'm not entirely sure who runs that -
> any ideas?

Maps downloads the service file [1] (hosted on GNOME infrastructure),
it's a simple JSON file containing service definitions with URLs for
the different tile sources. We used to have a proxy at one point (but
that has since been de-commisioned, and the service definition points
directly to the tile providers.

[1] https://gis.gnome.org/services/v1/service.json

//Marcus

> Neil