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Posts by Ian Wagner

Founder & President / COO

Ian is co-founder of Stadia Maps and leads engineering and operations. He works on routing, navigation, and the technical foundations that keep customer applications reliable at scale.

5 posts

Precision Meets Privacy: Elevating the Consumer Search Experience

Stadia Maps geocoding API delivers structured search, reverse geocoding, and autocomplete across 1B+ locations — no user tracking, no ad-network bias.

June 17, 2026·4 min read

The Invisible Costs of Routing: Privacy, Pricing, and Avoiding the "MAU" Trap

Most mapping SDKs harvest user data and charge by MAU — penalizing your success. See how Stadia Maps eliminates both risks with private-by-design infrastructure and transparent, usage-only billing.

June 10, 2026·5 min read

How We Fixed Water Feature Rendering Across All Zoom Levels in Our Basemaps

Mixing Natural Earth and OSM data at different zoom levels caused rivers to vanish, coastlines to shift, and islands to flicker. Here's how we unified our basemaps around a single Overture Maps dataset to fix it.

June 4, 2026·5 min read

Beyond the Car: Routing for the Other 90% of Transport

Car-first routing APIs fail trucks, e-bikes, and LSVs. See how Stadia Maps uses Valhalla and OpenStreetMap to deliver modal-specific routing that respects each vehicle's physical and legal constraints.

May 26, 2026·4 min read

Why Basic OpenStreetMap Routing Needs Real-Time Traffic

OpenStreetMap is a world-class road network, but without real-time traffic it's a static dataset. Here's why algorithmic ETAs fall apart in production logistics and how Stadia Maps closes the gap with TomTom-powered routing.

May 12, 2026·4 min read