[iamleppert]

First impressions:

- Doesn't seem very performant, panning behavior and zooming seems to redraw a lot unnecessarily, low framerate and not very smooth on good hardware - Poor support for touch events, pinch zoom and pan didn't work for me on touchpad - Looks to be using (PNG?) image tiles but and over-scaled canvas element, my laptop's fan came on during simple zoom and panning. I closed the tab and it promptly shut off.

The API seems okay but nowhere near as good as leaflet. MapboxGL has better performance imo.

I'm trying to understand what the compelling reason to use this would be? If you want the best quality basemaps, use Google Maps. If you want the most customizability and a great API, use leaflet. If you want a fancy map, use MapboxGL. If you like apple, use this??

[angott]

This thing has been out for less than 24 hours. I’m sure they’ll need some time to refine and optimize it. Anyone remember how the very first Mapbox version compared in performance with respect to Google Maps?