Mapbox Mobile

Brad Leege - Mapbox - @bradleege

On Device Rendering Of Vector Maps

UW Cart Lab Education Series - August 30, 2016

Introductions

• Mobile Engineer at Mapbox
• Working on Mobile tools and strategy
• Live and Work in Madison, Wisconsin
• UW Alumnus

Mapbox

• Building Open Source tools for custom map design, development, and analysis.

• Powered by OpenStreetMap

• Cloud hosting of custom maps, geocoding, and directions for mobile apps and Web sites.

• ~170 People Worldwide

  • Founded in Washington, DC

Vector Tile Maps

• Smooth Fast Maps

• 75 % Smaller Than Raster Maps

• Smooth Transitions

• Data Integrated With Design

• Dynamic Design

• Open Source

  • https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec

  • https://www.mapbox.com/vector-tiles/specification/

  • https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-style-spec

  • https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-style-spec/

Mobile

Vector Tile Maps

Incremental Zoom

Raster Rotation

Raster Rotation

Raster Rotation

Raster Rotation

Vector Rotation

Mapbox Mobile SDK

• Core GL
  • Open GL and C++
  • Renders Style On Device In Real Time
  • Internal Engine used by both platforms
• Platform Bindings (aka SDKs)
  • Familiar APIs
    • iOS - MapKit
    • Android - Google Maps
  • Languages
    • iOS - Objective-C and Swift
    • Android - Java

Mapbox Workflow

• Custom Design
  • Mapbox Studio
• Stock Design
  • Preset Styles
• Publish
  • Web
  • iOS
  • Android

iOS Demo

Android Demo

Questions?

Thanks!

• https://github.com/mapbox (900+ repos)
• https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
• brad@mapbox.com
• @bradleege