[jamornh]

I am currently working on a location-based game for iOS and have been using Google Maps SDK and I'm extremely interested in this.

Google Maps has refused to respond to all requests for custom styled maps on iOS despite being the most requested feature.[1]

I've also tried MapBox but both have been giving very bad performance on iPhone 4... this could be just my code, however as a game I really need to perform a lot of animation on the map itself and these 2 options perform quite poorly in my experience.

Another issue with map SDKs is that there's usually no way to turn off road names. I just need the road vectors to be rendered (like Ingress) so players get a baring of where they are relative to their roads, but not necessarily the name of the roads. I imagine that it would be more performant if I could turn that off. Neither Google nor Mapbox allows this unfortunately.

Might give this a go to see how well it works with all the things we're throwing at our map functionality. Thanks!

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=...

[taigeair]

How does this differ from MapBox? I was going to use MapBox, but just learned about this one.

[jamornh]

Looking at their getting started page, it seems to be much simpler to integrate in terms of getting the barebones map up and running.

I haven't had time to dive into it yet so don't take my word for it but I suspect it would be similar in feature and performance.

[ris]

I recommend you read the terms of service for the Google Maps API very thoroughly.

[jamornh]

Thank you for the recommendation. I'm looking through it right now. Is there anything specific you wanted to point out that I should look out for? It's a pretty long document and I didn't want to miss anything important.