Re: Mapbox <-> GNOME Maps

[Marcus Lundblad <ml update uu se>]

mån 2016-07-18 klockan 04:10 +0200 skrev Mattias Bengtsson:
> Hi Sajjad!
>
> Thanks A LOT for this offer. 
>
> Also thanks to Arun and Amisha for reaching out!
>
> I'm CC'ing your colleague Alex Barth since he also reached out from
> Mapbox and wanted to help but in a separate email-thread. 
>
> Hi Alex! Thanks a lot for reaching out! ☺
>
> So, even though the current situation is kind of urgent I want to
> think
> about the future a bit. We're currently relying on separate services
> for not only tiles but also geocoding and direction searches and I
> would love for us to use the same provider in the future (either self
> hosted or from a map company). Perhaps Mapbox? There's also some
> other
> stuff that I can't remember right now.

I think the above sounds like a good plan.
Also I think this kinda touches the stuff I've been hacking on lately,
namely the public transit routing support. This uses OpenTripPlanner
with assistance from the GraphHopper service for walking directions.
I have factored out the routing in the routeService.js module to be
callable using a callback instead of firing the "routing complete"
signal, hopefully this should be reasonably easy to adapt to a
different service for turn-based routing.
In any case, before this could land we'd need somewhere to host a
server running OpenTripPlanner.
Ofcourse, this is not at all urgent, as this is new non-essential (but
nice to have feature). Just wanted to give some heads up so we could
keep this in mind if needed.

//Marcus

> I would like to schedule a meeting with Sajjad and/or Alex to discuss
> the above and the tile service offering details a bit. 
>
> I'm available whenever this week, but to start off would Tuesday work
> for you? Given time zone differences between Bangalore, New York, San
> Francisco and Gothenburg I guess it's best that you set a time
> though.
> ☺
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
>
> On fre, 2016-07-15 at 12:15 -0400, Sajjad Anwar wrote:
> > Thank you Arun for the introduction.
> >
> > [...]
> >  
> > For a start, Mapbox can give GNOME maps for free for a year, using
> > a
> > coupon code and we can look at traffic and adjust volumes as we go.
>
> This is awesome!
>
> > I'm copying my colleague Ali and Amisha. Ali will help you setup
> > with
> > an account. 
>
> Great!
>
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