Nathan Reed

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Nathan is a Senior Software Engineer on the Mobile team. He works on all areas of the iOS app, taking a leading role in the team's efforts around maps, networking, and other foundational components.

3/3/2025

Nathan Reed

Blast from the past: A new iOS map component for FlightAware

This blog post was originally published in November 2024. We’re publishing it again now because we thought it would be helpful to highlight how and why our iOS map component leverages Apple’s MapKit framework and Apple’s base map tiles as part of the overall solution.

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11/3/2024

Nathan Reed

A new iOS map component for FlightAware

Earlier this year, we released a rewritten map component for our iOS app. This blog post will cover some of the design choices we made for the new map and lessons we learned along the way.

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