maps VS mapbox-gl-js

Compare maps vs mapbox-gl-js and see what are their differences.

maps

A Mapbox GL flutter package for creating custom maps (by flutter-mapbox-gl)

mapbox-gl-js

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL (by mapbox)
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maps mapbox-gl-js
5 13
1,017 10,660
0.6% 1.1%
3.1 9.8
20 days ago 13 days ago
Dart JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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maps

Posts with mentions or reviews of maps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.
  • MAU pricing questions
    2 projects | /r/mapbox | 2 Dec 2022
    1) I would like to use the Maps SDKs for Mobile pricing, so 25k MAU(monthly active users) free tier. If I have understood correctly I have to use the Mapbox Sdk for iOS and Android, in my case the flutter port(https://github.com/flutter-mapbox-gl/maps). So I think flutter_map(leaflet based) is not compatible with this type of pricing, right? But I was wondering if the open source maplibre(https://github.com/m0nac0/flutter-maplibre-gl) is ok for this type of pricing.
  • [Appwrite Places]
    5 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2022
    mapbox_gl
  • Max zoom levels?
    2 projects | /r/mapbox | 26 Mar 2022
    Yes, I'm using the Flutter MapBox GL project (that uses the native implementation, which is mostly written in C++). I'm using vector tiles, and it's getting down to 1.35cm/pixel for iOS and .12cm/pixel for Android at my latitude; I believe this is level 22 for iOS and 25.5 for Android.
  • Flutter for a map focused app?
    2 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 15 Mar 2021
    For Google Maps this seems to be the official package by Google, this one seems to be the official Mapbox package. Mapbox already states that their package only exposes a small subset of API methods in its flutter SDK, how is it with Google Maps? How limited are the Packages in terms of

mapbox-gl-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of mapbox-gl-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing maps and mapbox-gl-js you can also consider the following projects:

maplibre-gl-js - MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in WebGL2

cesium - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: [Moved to: https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium]

h3 - Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

ffprobe-wasm - A Web-based FFProbe. Powered by FFmpeg, Vue and Web Assembly!

martin - Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling.

tangram - WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography

electron-browser-shell - A minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

maplibre-native - MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

rust-starter - Rust Starter Project

maps - A Mapbox react native module for creating custom maps

pg-mem - An in memory postgres DB instance for your unit tests