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by zerebubuth 2961 days ago
Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, also had an awesome (if I say so myself - I used to work there, but not on that team) vector tile renderer for browser and mobile. Check it out at https://github.com/tangrams

Also, there was a great interactive style editor (https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-play), although it seems the demo site is broken now :-(

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RIP Mapzen. I loved how much much you all were contributing to the open source web space.
Any chance mapzen would open source the code used to make metro extracts? The formats your team had to offer were so much nicer than working with raw OSM data
I'm glad you found them useful! The code which made all the metro extracts was embedded as a Chef recipe, although I'm sure you could just extract the bits which do stuff from the Chef wrappers: https://github.com/mapzen/chef-metroextractor
Cool! Thanks you!!