DaylightingSociety / WhereAreTheEyes

Surveillance Detection and Mapping App
https://eyes.daylightingsociety.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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OpenStreetMap Integration #31

Closed 0verk1ll closed 7 years ago

0verk1ll commented 7 years ago

I noticed that you used maps provided by Mapbox. There is an open-source alternative to Mapbox that you might want to look into called OpenStreetMap. They provide maps created by the open-source community and anyone is allowed to use their maps in their projects as long as they provide attribution (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). It would be great if you could integrate with OpenStreetMap and have your entire project be open-source.

milo-trujillo commented 7 years ago

I believe you may be misinformed. We chose Mapbox based on OpenStreetMap's recommendation. Mapbox uses the map data from OpenStreetMap, but provides tile data so that we aren't placing stress on the OSM servers. We already provide attribution for both OSM and Mapbox. Further, all of the Mapbox code we use is open source, and we are working to more closely integrate our camera data with the OpenStreetMap surveillance layer. Please correct me if my information is wrong.