Mapzen
Mapzen (mapzen.com) was an open source mapping lab building mapping tools and services, funded by Samsung. OpenStreetMap is central to many of its products. After Mapzen shut down in 2018, legal ownership of code created at Mapzen was given to the Linux Foundation, but the open source projects started at Mapzen continue independently.[1]
Closed down
Mapzen closed down end of January 2018. Most if not all of their products, services, and documentation were open source and remain available on GitHub. They have also provided a migration guide to similar services, and an organisation called Nextzen was established for some continued hosting.
Commercial Successors
After Mapzen's shutdown, many ex-employees created new ventures continuing the work done at Mapzen.
- Interline: offers consulting on transit and routing. Hosts [transit.land](https://www.transit.land/) for providing easy to use transportation data from GTFS feeds. Hosts [OSM extracts](https://app.interline.io/osm_extracts/interactive_view) for quick and easy small area OSM and Valhalla extracts. Extracts are free or paid depending on extent and frequency.
- Geocode Earth: hosted APIs and consulting for geocoding including global autocomplete. Geocode Earth founders are also the maintainers of the Pelias geocoder.
Projects and services
- Pelias, an opensource geocoder using Elasticsearch: demo (Github).
- Tangram, an opensource 3D map rendering library using WebGL: demo (Github).
- A vector tile service.
- Valhalla, an open source routing engine
Not to be confused with
CloudMade had previously used the Mapzen name for its editing products.