981557 - Migrate event page to Mapbox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Events, defect)

Description

[Oliver Propst]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140307030202

Steps to reproduce:

Visit https://webmaker.org/en-US/events


Actual results:

The event page are based on Google Maps.


Expected results:

I suggest a migration from Google Maps to Mapbox as its the preferred map provider on Mozilla websites, have different providers are confusing [1], [2], [3]. 

1 https://www.mapbox.com/
2 https://reps.mozilla.org/events/#/period/future/
3 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/

Comment 1

[inactivate account for kate]

Hey Matt, we are shipping a new version of events and will be deprecating the old webmaker.org/events.

I suggest we consider this for r3, although I'd like to add in some technical things to consider for this:

* Can we easily integrate it with angular
* Is there some kind of autocompletion API available (like the one we use on /Add)
* How good/reliable is the data for countries outside North America (important for us)

Anyways, just some initial thoughts. Perhaps we should consider for the visualization redesign.

Comment 2

[Oliver Propst]

(In reply to Kate Hudson (:k88hudson) from comment #1)
> Hey Matt, we are shipping a new version of events and will be deprecating
> the old webmaker.org/events.
> 
> I suggest we consider this for r3, although I'd like to add in some
> technical things to consider for this:


> * Can we easily integrate it with angular
Seems possible if you are using Leadflet javascript apis for the maps
http://tombatossals.github.io/angular-leaflet-directive/#!/

> * Is there some kind of autocompletion API available (like the one we use on
> /Add)
The situation seems a bit unclear.
https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox.js/issues/264

> * How good/reliable is the data for countries outside North America
> (important for us)

From my understanding the support today is pretty solid and improving. 
 
> Anyways, just some initial thoughts. Perhaps we should consider for the
> visualization redesign.

Comment 3

[Pomax]

we are reworking the events system, landing of which voids this issue.