Posts tagged: whosonfirst

Yes No Fix

Yes No Fix is not a perfect solution but our hope is that it will at least make things a little better than they were yesterday.

Who's on First? It's Mapzen Search

We're getting ready to power Mapzen Search with Who's on First, Mapzen's open data directory of worldwide places. It's a data source that's going to make it a whole lot easier to search the whole world. If you're an existing user, here's what you need to know and what anyone interested in Mapzen Search can get excited about.

Mapzen's Vector Tile service — better, stronger, faster

A lot has changed since we launched the Mapzen Vector Tiles service last year, including updated documentation, faster & fresher tiles, and new tile data. Plus preview upcoming v0.8 changes.

I Am Here

Mapzen should always be Consumer Zero (of Mapzen services).

Spelunker - Jumping into Who's On First

If you’re not from New York you may not appreciate just how wrong the current data for the Gowanus Canal is. ... This sort of discrepancy is exactly what the spelunker was built to uncover.

Who’s On First

Mapzen is building a gazetteer of places. Not quite all the places in the world but a whole lot of them and, we hope, the kinds of places that we mostly share in common. You might want to get a cup of coffee or maybe a drink if you’ve been thinking about this sort of thing for as long as we have (or maybe longer).