It’s been an exciting year for Mapzen Search and for our users, so we thought today would be a great time to look back at some of the most exciting things you’re doing with Mapzen Search!
Mapillary
Our friends at Mapillary have been using Mapzen Search to help with their crowdsourced mission of photographing every public place. Mapillary’s amazing community of photomappers have biked, driven, and walked over 1 million kilometers taking photos of the world to build a crowdsourced “Street View”. And searching those views is easier than ever, now that Mapzen Search powers the location search on their website and their iPhone app!
Gaia GPS
As one of the earliest adopters of Mapzen Search, Gaia GPS has been pioneering new uses for the tool for months! Since we’ve been in beta, Gaia GPS has been helping hikers, bikers, and other outdoor explorers remember their outdoor adventures, using our reverse geocoding to name their custom trails.
They just rolled the feature out into their iOS app, so if you’re planning an outdoor adventure and want to plan or log your journey, know that Mapzen Search is there to help you find yourself in GaiaGPS.
Meshu
Meshu is artisanal map art jewelry commerce at its finest. Meshu is the brainchild of Rachel Binx, a self-described “data visualizer, art historian, mathematician, and GIF empress,” and lets people create custom jewelry from the geodata of places they’ve visited.
We seriously <3 Meshu (and its sister projects monochōme and TrekNotes) and love seeing our tools powering awesome map art. Make more!
CAD Mapper
CAD Mapper is one of those remarkable small businesses that builds on top of OpenStreetMap and makes a point of giving back to the community. CAD Mapper allows architects and designers who work with CAD tools, like Autodesk’s venerable AutoCAD or the open source QCAD, to pull custom geographic data from OpenStreetMap into their existing tools.
They’ve been using our autocomplete plugin for Leaflet to let users search for areas of interest to export.
CAD Mapper also provides a CAD-friendly version of Metro Extracts, providing free AutoCAD DXF models of entire cities from OpenStreetMap!
Missed Your Project?
There have been hundreds of folks who’ve given Mapzen Search a try this year and we were only able to highlight a few of them. But if you’ve got a project we should know about, drop us a line and we’ll try to showcase it in our next roundup.
Thanks so much for searching with us in 2015. We hope to find a lot more with you in 2016!
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