#MAPTILER VS MAPBOX DOWNLOAD#
Rather than upload your data set, you instead download the Maptiler Desktop application and process your data into a tileset on your local machine. With Maptiler you are getting a similar result – an OpenStreetMap with your custom data and styles – but with a different workflow. The end result is a map that is based on OpenStreetMap, with your data layer (or layers) rendered as tiles and any custom styling you have created.
You upload your data, convert that data to a map tileset, apply that tileset to one of Mapbox’s default map styles, then customize the style in Mapbox Studio. Mapbox is more similar to Fusion Tables in terms of workflow. While each company essentially sells the same end result – map hosting services that can serve large data sets as tiled maps – each delivers their products very differently. In the end I concluded two companies offered products that matched my needs: Mapbox and Maptiler. I spent a lot of time researching and testing available services and technologies. The goal here is to visualize large datasets on interactive maps with the lowest possible cost and difficulty.
#MAPTILER VS MAPBOX PROFESSIONAL#
It is my goal to evaluate map technology providers from the perspective of a webmaster, not a GIS professional or programmer. Technologies outside of the Google ecosystem are largely geared towards GIS professionals, with little documentation or tools that help non-GIS people get started quickly and easily.
Mapping a lot of data was easy with Fusion Tables, so I was shocked to find just how difficult competing products would be. Fusion Tables is being discontinued so I needed to find an alternative for mapping large datasets. More importantly, Fusion Tables rendered the data layer on the map on the server side, eliminating the inevitable performance issues on client machines that made mapping large datasets difficult or impossible This is what 2,715 data points looked like mapped with Google Fusion Tables. For those unfamiliar with Fusion Tables, it was a product that allowed for fast and easy rendering of large datasets on Google Maps.įusion Tables was easy to use, and allowed website owners to display many thousands of placemarks quickly and easily. The impetus for the comparisons made in this article was Google’s announcement that they were discontinuing their Fusion Tables product.
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