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Early work on OpenStreetMap tools, including the iD editor, was funded by a $575,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. On July 11, 2016, MapQuest discontinued the open tile API and users such as GNOME Maps were switched to a temporarily free tier of the Mapbox tileserver, while considering alternatives.
MapQuest. Screenshot of MapQuest in use on a web browser. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps.
MapQuest Mapy.cz OpenStreetMap Here WeGo Apple Maps Yandex Maps; Age of satellite imagery 1–3 years [dubious – discuss] 1–3 years [citation needed] 1–4 years No 1–3 years 1–3 years 1–4 years Map data providers MAPIT, Tele Atlas, DigitalGlobe, MDA Federal, user contributions
Tile Map Service or TMS, is a specification for tiled web maps, developed by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The definition generally requires a URI structure which attempts to fulfill REST principles. The TMS protocol fills a gap between the very simple standard used by OpenStreetMap and the complexity of the Web Map Service standard ...
Tiled web maps are normally displayed with no gap between tiles. A tiled web map,slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as ...
To overcome the CPU intensive on-the-fly rendering problem, application developers started using pre-rendered map tiles. Several open and proprietary schemes were invented to organize and address these map tiles. An earlier specification for this is the Tile Map Service (TMS). It is simpler than WMTS.
OpenLayers. OpenLayers is a JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers as slippy maps. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps . It is open-source, provided under the 2-clause BSD License. [2]
Some 8.6 million people use MapQuest's mobile website, 1.4 million of which are on Android devices**. Nationwide, 234 million people use mobile phones and 85.3 million of them use mobile web ...