[HN Gopher] MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox...
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MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
Author : atriix
Score : 209 points
Date : 2021-04-02 11:10 UTC (1 days ago)
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| slibhb wrote:
| From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
|
| > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher ("Mapbox Web SDK") must be
| used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license
| allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and
| modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web
| SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere
| with marked portions of the code related to billing, accounting,
| and anonymized data collection. The Mapbox Web SDK only sends
| anonymized usage data, which Mapbox uses for fixing bugs and
| errors, accounting, and generating aggregated anonymized
| statistics. This license terminates automatically if a user no
| longer has an active Mapbox account.
|
| Seems their client code does some things related to "billing,
| accounting, and anonymized data collection" and they don't want
| programmers to disable or modify that code.
|
| Is that right? Anyone who has followed this have more
| information? I haven't used mapbox in a few years but I think
| it's great technology.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| The software stopped being open source from v2 onwards. The new
| licence makes it merely shared source.
|
| This GitHub issue where this change is announced provides a
| number of more in-depth explanations why this is a bad thing
| for most users of the software:
| https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162
| blendergeek wrote:
| The billing is pretty important.
|
| Using Mapbox GL JS 2.0 offline using a local tile server still
| requires an account and a per tile fee.
| mourner wrote:
| There was a big HN discussion about it a few months back
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310
| icholy wrote:
| How does this compare with openlayers?
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| Mapbox GL/MapLibre GL does one thing and does it incredibly
| well: vector map rendering from tiled data (MVT format) in the
| common Web Mercator projection.
|
| OpenLayers is a bit more of a Swiss Army knife. It's a valuable
| part of many web GIS workflows, but its vector tile rendering
| is a long way behind MBGL's.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end
| but fine as a basic Web mapping UI.
|
| I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when
| building complex mapping UIs.
| executive wrote:
| Exactly the opposite experience.
|
| Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary.
| karussell wrote:
| Maplibre is certainly weak in the "GIS front" like
| coordinate transformation or WMS stuff etc.
|
| But yes, the one big feature missing in openlayers is Web
| GL support for vector tiles. There was some support for
| this but due to bugs (or something else?) they removed it
| in the latest version. Note that openlayers has Web GL
| support for e.g. point cloud.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I do wish Openlayers did WebGL better but I found Mapbox to
| be far too primitive to do anything beyond your basic map
| views and interactions.
|
| Once I got to "user has to author their own city data on a
| dozen layers" it was missing a lot of authoring features
| required.
| cejana wrote:
| Besides the JS version, the Maplibre project also maintains a
| FOSS fork of the matching mobile libraries at
| https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native
| rijoja wrote:
| Cool does anyone have experience of using this?
| genericguy wrote:
| We are using it at couchers.org. It's a drop-in replacement to
| the 1.x versions which were properly open source.
| rijoja wrote:
| Wow that is cool, good to see a couch surfing alternative.
| Have you gotten a decent amount of users?
| Mediterraneo10 wrote:
| There have been Couchsurfing alternatives for years and
| years. BeWelcome is a registered non-profit in France that
| has been around since ~2008, while Trustroots (also a
| registered non-profit) was founded in 2014 to provide a
| site whose web infrastructure could develop more quickly
| through hackathons, and would be more friendly to
| alternative travelers like hitchhikers.
|
| The only reason some people saw a need for Couchers is
| because they wanted a site that was a more faithful clone
| of Couchsurfing, except without Couchsurfing's recent turn
| towards paywalls. However, people who have been involved in
| internet hospitality exchange for many years are concerned
| about this kind of duplication of effort. There were also
| concerns about Couchers' non-profit status in the
| beginning, but one does have to give them credit for
| swiftly resolving that.
| vami wrote:
| The story behind Mapbox GL:
| https://www.maptiler.com/news/2021/01/mapbox-gl-open-source-...
| nxpnsv wrote:
| I wanted to try this, it so I opened the demo
| https://codepen.io/klokan/pen/WNoZRyx and 30 mins later I am lost
| looking at Hungarian villages for some reason...
| eCa wrote:
| Have you tried Geoguessr[1]?
|
| [1] https://www.geoguessr.com/ (no affiliation)
| fit2rule wrote:
| Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into
| something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village
| sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..)
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