vector

Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, explored the space…

Online mapping just got an upgrade:
Announcing Mapbox GL JS — a fast…

MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.