Quote Originally Posted by Redrobes View Post
Showing up on the tech news today...

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item...apping-library

a C based API for getting public vector data rendered out using a cloud based parallel server to provide rendered tiles of a regional area - presumably to load into google maps type thing. Prob use this in my app as well. Sounds good for people wanting real world maps with custom features. From my quick read it looks free but I am not sure.
It's under the MIT license. I'm not seeing anything about a cloud computing service though, it just looks like a library for implementing a WMS/TMS on top of OGR and Cairo. If you want to use it, you need to write a service using it and then host it yourself. It's sort of interesting, but there are already loads of map servers available, they even mention Mapnik and MapServer in the article. For those who need the specific capabilities of this one (Mostly that seems to be that it's very simple and has multiple language bindings), that's great, but otherwise, it's not particularly new or interesting.