Do we use Mapbox?

[amaury1093]

Pros:

• nice community
• drawing tools

Cons:

• slow

Alternatives:

• https://github.com/mariusandra/pigeon-maps: tiny and fast, doesn't support geojson
• leaflet:
• no map, other tools that handle geosjon, such as d3. The background cool be a stylized world map picture. See https://chronist.ru/.

[ataalik]

Do you mean as the mapping library, the tile host or both?

1. If you mean as tile host: If it's possible I would rather keeping mapbox with a simple shaded relief style map. Being able to see topographic features is important.
   Alternatives I know of:

• http://www.maptiler.com/ (not that familiar)
• google maps (not sure if it can be stylized)
• open street map ( has a few different options for style but anything apart from the main server is unreliable)

2. if you mean as the mapping library I think there are better alternatives. One thing I really wanted was having a globe. They added it recently to google maps. I was able to find some ways of doing it

• d3 has a globe module but it gets laggy quite fast and map tiles are not supported
• https://cesiumjs.org/ and by extension http://www.webglearth.org/ (supports geojson, regular raster tiles, terrain imagery, 3d models etc. A really good choice that I just recently found. )
• obviously leaflet. Pretty standard stuff.

[amaury1093]

Nice inputs, thanks! Yes, I meant the library (your number 2).