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by deadmansshoes 1466 days ago
Shapely was around long before Mapbox, and Rasterio too. Both are based on stalwarts of the open source geospatial world - GEOS and GDAL.

Vector tiles, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox styling, and numerous other libraries however did grow out of Mapbox - the amount of geospatial developer talent they hoovered up must have made it pretty amazing to work at for a time.
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trgn 1466 days ago
Mapbox has had an incredible influence on geo software development for the web.

Hats off to everybody who made it happen.

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urschrei 1466 days ago
I am not claiming otherwise, having been a Shapely user since…2012? I’m talking about the work done by Sean et al while they were at Mapbox.
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