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In May 2015, with the purchase of AOL by Verizon Communications, MapQuest came under the ownership of Verizon. On 11 July 2016, MapQuest discontinued its open tile API, and users such as GNOME Maps were switched to a temporarily free tier of the Mapbox tileserver, while considering alternatives.
Mapbox, Inc. Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Snapchat. [3] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps.
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.
Vertical, horizontal, depth, rotation (mobile version), 360 panoramic, 3D mode Map zoom 22 (more levels available through parameter) 19-22 (depending on which map control is used) 17 19 19 18 Vector-base 19 Mouse scroll wheel map zoom Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes: Yes Direct mouse interface (draggable, etc.) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OpenStreetMap ( OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial imagery and also import from other freely licensed geodata sources. OpenStreetMap is freely licensed under the Open Database License and as a result ...
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 Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...
A Web Map Tile Service ( WMTS) is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered or run-time computed georeferenced map tiles over the Internet. The specification was developed and first published by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2010. [1]
2004: OpenStreetMap, an open source, open content world map founded by Steve Coast. 2004: Yandex Maps is founded. 2005: Google Maps, The first version of Google Maps. Based on raster tiles organized in a quad tree scheme, data loading done with XMLHttpRequests. This mapping application became highly popular on the web, also because it allowed ...