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future-mvt
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How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
> PMTiles aside, this is still Mapbox’s world.
Isn't this is a bit like saying we're still in Google's world because most maps still use Web Mercator? :)
Good tech builds on what came before. Mapbox did a lot of ground-breaking work in building tooling around OSM, but so have many others. The fact that they named it Mapbox Vector Tiles is be genius in hindsight, because even though we may use tons of tooling they didn't create to build and render them, their name is still there.
> The next challenge is to evolve the tech stack to something beyond what Mapbox worked up five/ten years ago.
Agreed, and I think we've seen a lot of iterative work in the open since then. The next challenge is likely building a OSS stack to do proper 3D: open data (including OSM) to pixels, and that work is already beginning across a lot of organizations: https://github.com/nyurik/future-mvt/discussions, Overture Maps, MapLibre, etc.
maplibre-gl-leaflet
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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
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.
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Which open source/free alternatives are there to open layers for rendering vector tiles in the browser?
On the Leaflet front, if you look at the plugins list, you'll see Leaflet.VectorGrid (made a long time ago by yours truly). And if you search for a bit, you'll find maplibre-gl-leaflet, which places a Maplibre instance inside a Leaflet map pane.
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How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet exists!
It's not perfect, and you don't see the full benefit of a WebGL renderer, but if you want to keep using a Leaflet API, it's great.
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Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
Seems like MapTiler is maintaining an open source full stack vector alternative, and OpenLayers[0] looks good as well, so maybe it's time for legacy libraries to add vector support, or for users to switch libraries? There's even bindings from Maplibre GL to Leaflet [1].
I at least would find it interesting to see the two compared by someone other than me ;).
[0] https://openlayers.org/
[1] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet
What are some alternatives?
valhalla - Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap
go-pmtiles - Single-file executable tool for working with PMTiles archives
planetiler - Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast
maputnik - An open source visual editor for the 'MapLibre Style Specification'
OpenTopoMap - A topographic map from OpenStreetMap and SRTM data
PMTiles - Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps
OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers
protomaps-leaflet - Lightweight vector map rendering + labeling and symbology for Leaflet