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If you’re an iOS developer that uses maps in your app, but you’re unsatisfied with the level of customization that Apple’s MapKit allows, you’ll be excited by the MapBox news today. The company, which is used by Foursqare and other companies to deliver maps to their users, is launching an iOS SDK that allows for greater flexibility and customized mapping tiles from the TileMill designer. The SDK has an open-source codebase, and it’s based on the Route-Me mapping library. All of the standard interactions are there, like pinching, zooming and snapping actions. Any improvements to the engine will be added to the project as time goes on.

MapBox Introduces SDK for Super-Customizable iOS Maps

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/04/17/mapbox-introduces-slick-sdk-for-high-quality-ultra-customizeable-ios-maps/

http://mapbox.com/blog/introducing-mapbox-ios-sdk/

Introducing the MapBox iOS SDK

Powerful open source tools allows greater flexibility than Apple's MapKit We’re proud to introduce our MapBox iOS SDK, a powerful open source tool that lets developers on Apple’s iPhone and iPad build custom, high performance maps with tight integration into MapBox Hosting , offline maps capabilities, embedded interactivity, and gorgeous customizability by leveraging our design studio TileMill . Open source on GitHub and based on the popular Route-Me mapping library, our SDK is everything you need to add custom maps to your app.

We recently released MapBox Streets , a zoomable web map of the world that's powered entirely by open data through the OpenStreetMap project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make it incredibly easy for people to start using it on their websites. We created a step-by-step tutorial on how to use MapBox Streets on a website and add data to it using our open-source map design studio TileMill or pulling from an external source, like a database or API (application programming interface). We've seen good adoption so far from large companies like Foursquare to university projects like this map from the University of California at Santa Barbara . Open data is important OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style geographic database that anyone can contribute to -- and they do.

MediaShift Idea Lab . Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Powered by Open Data | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/03/introducing-mapbox-streets-a-new-world-map-powered-by-open-data074.html

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For over a decade, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research . These three maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data. These high-contrast B+W (black and white) maps are featured in our Dotspotting project.

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Demis: Web Map Server

The OpenGIS Web Map Server (WMS) protocol defines a simple interface for web based mapping applications. The WMS protocol is based on a simple query syntax for posting a request for the desired layers and zoom window to the server, which returns a map as a standard picture (GIF, PNG or other format) For a comprehensive technical background and official specifications for the WMS protocol, we strongly recommend you to begin by reviewing the WMS specification document provided by the OpenGIS consortium. The Demis WMS service components are COM based, WMS connector scripts are provided for integration with ASP 2.0 or ASP.NET web programming environments. If using a credit card through 2CO is a problem, please e-mail sales@demis.nl and request an invoice so you can pay by bank transfer or cheque.