Oh I'm so sad for them. Mapzen has a bunch of really great products and services, they are some of the top experts in open source mapping. It's a shame the business hasn't worked out.<p>They have a good companion post on alternative services for folks needing to migrate. It doubles as a survey of the best in open source mapping tools out there right now. <a href="https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/" rel="nofollow">https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/</a><p><i>Edit</i> also a post specific to the Who's On First project: <a href="https://www.whosonfirst.org/blog/2018/01/02/chapter-two/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whosonfirst.org/blog/2018/01/02/chapter-two/</a>
Really sad to see. I've been very happy with Mapzen for the past year or so.<p>Their open source stuff is really good, and the service itself is excellent as well. Not quite as polished as Google/Mapbox, but absolutely usable in production apps.<p>Would be very interested to read a post mortem. Did they simply struggle to find users, was their pricing strategy wrong, was quality an issue?<p>If anyone at Mapzen is reading these comments, thank you for all the work you've done. I'll miss you guys.
There is a product from Mapzen that I have never seen anywhere else : Isochrones (<a href="https://mapzen.com/documentation/mobility/isochrone/api-reference/" rel="nofollow">https://mapzen.com/documentation/mobility/isochrone/api-refe...</a>).
Been interested in this for years (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9403699/map-of-all-points-below-a-certain-time-of-travel" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9403699/map-of-all-point...</a>) They were the only ones to provide a solution.<p>I am super sad to see this go and still haven't seen any alternative.<p>Happy to hear about anything in this direction :s.
It is a great shame to see them go, was always impressed with the quality of their products and ecosystem built around it.<p>If there are any Mapzeners here looking for something new, please consider taking a look at www.procedural.eu - we also make a WebGL mapping engine based on OSM data, but our focus is more using procedural generation to augment the data, to generate immersive 3D natural environments for visualizing ski resorts, hiking routes etc.
That’s sad news. I was planning to use them for my programming class. The Geocoding and other APIs, besides being free and generous, were easy to learn and very useful. The technical blog posts were also enlightening.
> we’re optimistic about what’s next.<p>Well... what's next for me is rewriting this application in the next 30 days.<p>Not feeling too "optimistic" there about that.
Anybody know if there is a hosted libpostal service? I didn't notice in the migration document. It's easy to include in our application if we need to but it's used infrequently and consumes a couple of gigabytes of memory so we've found it useful to call as a service when needed.
Such sad news. Mapzen has been a core component of many projects that I've worked with. They have created and supported many great products that will be missed.<p>They also have been a big part of supporting the GeoNYC group and helping to organize the OpenStreetMap US conferences.<p>Thanks for all the maps and data Mapzen!
Am I the only one who constantly discovers cool services during their shutdown notices? It feels like half of them can start to make it after the press they get during shutdown.
Sad to see this. I've been using Mapbox for my projects, if only because their documentation was pretty good for a beginner like me- but Mapzen seemed like an excellent service, and I hate to see that competition die.
If you need an alternative, please also keep an eye on MAPCAT. Our OSM-based public map portal is already live (www.mapcat.com), and the map API is just about to be launched. More info at <a href="http://try.mapcat.com/" rel="nofollow">http://try.mapcat.com/</a>
I've made quite a bit of use of Tangram JS (which I was very impressed by), and also of Mapzen's Open Street Map metro extracts and the IMPOSM project. Both very useful - thanks Mapzen.<p>Hope everyone involved manages to find new work swiftly.
Sorry to hear that. Is openaddresses.io, one of their backed projects dying too? I've been using their data on geocode.xyz, but it seems like there has not been any new data in the past 6 months.
How can we use <a href="https://github.com/davidar/ipfs-maps" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/davidar/ipfs-maps</a> ?
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