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by wiredfool 1948 days ago
That looks like some really awesome mapping.

Unfortunately, closed source seems to be the way that the mapping gl community is going right now.

I'm doing open data stuff, and the general push is definitely to open data/open source as a general principle. And also as an important consideration, when we deliver a project, with open source we at least know that the service isn't just going to go away if it gets bought by google/apple or just dies 6 months down the road. We also tend to shy away from systems that are on the Oracle "Call Us" for pricing model.
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kylebarron 1948 days ago
Well this "extension" is closed source, but at the core we use deck.gl [0]. deck.gl is under open governance [1] inside the Linux Foundation/Urban Computing Foundation, so no contributor can take the project closed source.

[0]: https://deck.gl/

[1]: https://github.com/visgl/tsc

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wiredfool 1948 days ago
I thought deck was based on mapbox.gl, which has now gone closed source.
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kylebarron 1948 days ago
No, this is a common misconception about deck.gl. deck.gl is completely independent from other frameworks, however deck.gl is more geared towards data visualization, so it's commonly paired with other frameworks that focus on a vector basemap.

There are examples [0] of pairing deck.gl with either Mapbox GL JS or Google Maps. It's also easy to use deck.gl with the open source Mapbox GL JS port [1]. Also if you're ok with a bitmap basemap, you can just render OSM tiles with deck.gl directly [2].

(Also I guess good to disclaim that I'm a maintainer of deck.gl )

[0]: https://deck.gl/docs/get-started/using-with-map

[1]: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js

[2]: https://deck.gl/examples/tile-layer/

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