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yellowbkpk
I've played with this a little bit over the last couple days and am completely blown away by the ease of use. If you're remotely interested in styling your own maps (particularly for a mobile app), you should try this out. It exports to an sqlite-based tile store that you can use to display your map tiles while away from a network connection.
yxhuvud
Sounds like it is simpler to style with than using SLD (which tends to be a pain if you do something remotely interesting). Interesting.
stdbrouw
Development Seed has consistently produced stunning work, both for clients and in terms of their open-source contributions, but TileMill really feels like their crowning achievement. (And all of it in PHP/Drupal, gasp!) Kudos, guys.
albertsun
This is node.js and express actually.

From the article:

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Under the hood of TileMill is a combination of open source projects - Mapnik for map rendering, express as a server-side framework, Backbone.js for the client-side, CodeMirror in the editor, carto for the styling language, node.js, and many others.

kylemathews
The confusion is understandable as Development Seed is a leading Drupal company who've released innovative Drupal distros such as Open Atrium [1] for intranets and Managing News [2] a news aggregation / analysis system.

[1] http://openatrium.com [2] http://managingnews.com/

stdbrouw
Ah, yes, referring more to the fact that they're a Drupal shop, but you're right, I didn't actually read up what tech they were using for TileMill.
alangalan
I'm looking forward to the possibility of Google Maps API integration. I'm referring to DS's claim that "TileMill maps are always projected to ‘Web Mercator’. As the name suggests, this projection is popular with web mapping applications, thus maps created with TileMill can be displayed using the Google Maps API, OpenLayers, and a number of other projects."