[HN Gopher] Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
Author : maelito
Score : 118 points
Date : 2024-02-24 13:31 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (maplibre.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (maplibre.org)
| philips wrote:
| The learning curve is pretty steep on GIS stuff in general. But,
| I found maplibre to work well both pulling out events and pumping
| in data via PMTiles or GeoJson on my django+htmx stack.
|
| My only major snag was debugging some nonsensical errors when I
| was testing pmtiles with maplibre on a webserver that didn't
| support ranged requests.
| a1o wrote:
| The website and the PDF in the about give a general idea of the
| organization goals but I couldn't figure where are the actual
| tools and libraries or the source code. :/
| NullPrefix wrote:
| Have you checked maplibre on github?
| https://github.com/maplibre
| a1o wrote:
| Thank you! I didn't saw it on the page linked for some
| reason.
| jchmbrln wrote:
| At my day job we're heavily invested in Leaflet for historical
| reasons, but toward the end of last year added Maplibre as a
| layer on top of it via the excellent
| https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet. This has allowed
| us to begin transitioning gradually instead of being forced to
| jump all at once.
|
| It's hard to beat the simplicity of Leaflet, but neither it nor
| OpenLayers can handle Mapbox Vector Tiles in a performant enough
| manner, so Maplibre is the future for us.
|
| I was not aware of Microsoft's involvement. It's great to see
| some big players using it too!
| kabes wrote:
| Note that openlayers has greatly improved its webgl
| capabilities last year and seems to offer equal performance for
| mvt now.
| bdon wrote:
| I maintain a small MVT rendering library for Leaflet - I'm
| overall satisfied with the performance on modern devices, but
| usually point greenfield projects at MapLibre instead, unless
| you need some very specific Leaflet plugin.
|
| demo: https://protomaps.github.io/protomaps-
| leaflet/examples/leafl... repo:
| https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet
| tananaev wrote:
| Awesome news. I think Mapbox made a mistake when they started
| charging for using their open source library with non Mapbox
| maps. But it's good that MapLibre picked up the work. I migrated
| my project to MapLibre a long time ago. Still missing some
| plugins, but mostly works great.
| interactivecode wrote:
| Embrace, extend, and extinguish
| clementmas wrote:
| I started to migrate from Mapbox GL JS but I'm still waiting for
| 3D globe support to fully switch.
|
| I also need to compare bundle sizes and load times. Last time I
| checked Mapbox v2 was faster.
| dzogchen wrote:
| It is being worked on!
| https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/161
| probably_satan wrote:
| Knowing Microsoft it's probably for some malicious purposes
| qwertox wrote:
| This is extremely good news.
|
| MapLibre is an awesome project, but it has huge problems with 3D
| terrain. In my opinion the entire 3D "stack" needs to be
| completely rewritten in order to properly support terrain,
| because navigation panning/zooming is badly broken, where the
| devil is in the detail. At a first glance all seems OK, but when
| you really use it, you'll notice that it's pure chaos which leads
| to errors in navigation. Also overlaying images over terrain is
| broken. It's always terrain what causes the problem.
|
| In 2D it's rock solid.
| zkirill wrote:
| Neat! This is the first time I heard about MapLibre. It seems
| that you'd use it over Leaflet if you're looking for vector tiles
| as opposed to raster?
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