April 1, 2017
Tangram Play becomes Tangram Work
It’s been almost two months since we launched Tangram Play. We’ve learned a lot from our users during this time. One thing we’ve heard loud and clear is that our web-based interface did not meet the needs of our power users. So, starting today, we are rebranding Tangram Play to Tangram Work, designed completely for the enterprise user in mind. Tangram Work is a downloadable desktop application, but we recommend that it only be installed by your organization's IT staff.
February 24, 2017
Mapzen platform update
Heads up! Mapzen is updating its vector and terrain tile services on March 1, 2017
to require an API key for access.
(See the blog
for more information.)
If you save or open an existing scene file and we
see that you’re using a Mapzen tile service without an API key, we’ll
now provide a warning. Your scene files will continue to work in Tangram
Play, but if you plan to use the scene elsewhere, you’ll want
to add your own API key as soon as possible. (If you’re not using a
Mapzen service, you won’t be affected by this.)
Improvements
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We’ve overhauled the Get code snippet dialog box. Before,
it displayed a small snippet of JavaScript, but it wasn’t obvious that you
still needed Leaflet and Tangram to run it. Now, we also show the entire
HTML context for both Mapzen.js or Leaflet/Tangram so you can just copy
and paste the whole thing into an HTML file. However, if JavaScript-only
code is still your preference, you can toggle the HTML off too.
February 7, 2017
Tangram Play is now in public beta!
We’re excited to release the public beta of Tangram Play, a text
editor for working with Tangram, our web map rendering library.
Your use of Play during this phase will help us improve our tools
for web map design.
If you're new here, find out more about Tangram Play on the
Mapzen blog.
The walkthrough gives a brief explanation of the
interface, whether you’re creating from a blank slate or using one of our
Mapzen basemaps.
If you’ve been here before, welcome back! There's been a few changes to
the interface that we’ll describe below.
New features
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Save a scene to your Mapzen account! Now you can access
your scenes from anywhere. With this improvement, we’ve replaced the
ability to save to an anonymous GitHub Gist, but if you've saved an
anonymous Gist in the past, you can still load those, and save them
again to get it into your Mapzen account.
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Share your scenes. Once you've saved your scene, we also
host it for you. Now there’s an easy way to share it with friends or
link it from your website or social media!
Let us know what you think: Give your feedback by emailing us at
tangram@mapzen.com.