Both Cloudmade and MapBox use OpenStreetMap data. Leaflet ( http://leafletjs.com/ ) was created by Cloudmade and is the JavaScript lib for putting tiled maps on the web. Mapbox have their own version of Leaflet, but it's essentially much the same if all you want to do it drop pins, work with layers, choose a tile set.
Both are comparable, and both are strong in the same space: Custom styled, tiled maps. And both are weak in the same place: routing.
Not to say that they don't do routing, but it's certainly not their forte.
Thankfully the majority use-case for most sites and applications using maps is simply "show a map, drop a few pins here and there". So having this map look and feel like the site is actually a good selling point.
buro9|12 years ago
http://cloudmade.com/
Both Cloudmade and MapBox use OpenStreetMap data. Leaflet ( http://leafletjs.com/ ) was created by Cloudmade and is the JavaScript lib for putting tiled maps on the web. Mapbox have their own version of Leaflet, but it's essentially much the same if all you want to do it drop pins, work with layers, choose a tile set.
Both are comparable, and both are strong in the same space: Custom styled, tiled maps. And both are weak in the same place: routing.
Not to say that they don't do routing, but it's certainly not their forte.
Thankfully the majority use-case for most sites and applications using maps is simply "show a map, drop a few pins here and there". So having this map look and feel like the site is actually a good selling point.
Sprint|12 years ago