2 posts tagged with "Basemap"

Until this week the Adventure basemap was a FastGIS style on top of stock OpenMapTiles tiles. Everything the style could learn, it had learned; what was left was what the tiles never carried. So now we bake the tiles ourselves, with a profile of our own, and the map shows harbours, gates on forest roads and track grades. It also stopped carrying thousands of points of interest it could never draw.

The Adventure basemap has always answered the one question every other map makes you click for: what is that road made of. This week it learned to answer the rest of a rider's questions without being asked — where the ferry runs, which name is the pass, where the town stops, and which badge to keep when two collide. Four passes, each checked on real pixels before it shipped.