How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions - Kevin Schaul
Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …
Feb 16, 2023 · Kevin Schaul Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data for their areas. For about five years, my instinct when working on these stories is to reach for Mapbox, which has continually pushed the field ahead with innovations like vector tiles, a style specification and tools like tippecanoe. For some projects, I’m sure we’ll continue using Mapbox. But for most of our use cases, we don’t need the latest and greatest. And…
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