valhalla VS Mapbox GL

Compare valhalla vs Mapbox GL and see what are their differences.

Mapbox GL

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL (by mapbox)
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valhalla Mapbox GL
9 4
4,174 4,288
2.1% -
9.3 6.4
6 days ago 9 months ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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valhalla

Posts with mentions or reviews of valhalla. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.

Mapbox GL

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mapbox GL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
  • Is it possible to use C++ libs on Flutter desktop apps?
    2 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 28 Mar 2023
    This is the library here: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native
  • 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.
  • Interactive maps in C++ applications
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 21 Nov 2021
    Mapbox has a c++ sdk as well as a GL renderer
  • Maps Offline?
    1 project | /r/gnome | 15 Feb 2021
    But vector tiles is indeed the way to go, but it's also much more complicated. Everyone that has worked on Maps so far has done it either as a SoC / Outreachy student or on weekends and evenings. Look at https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native if you want to get a feel for the complexity of a client side implementation of rendering vector tiles.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing valhalla and Mapbox GL you can also consider the following projects:

Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) - Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend

GEOSwift - The Swift Geometry Engine.

Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.

ClusterKit - An iOS map clustering framework targeting MapKit, Google Maps and Mapbox.

tilemaker - Make OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack

WhirlyGlobe-Maply - WhirlyGlobe Development

Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

Route-me - Open source map library for iOS

maplibre-gl-leaflet - This is a binding from MapLibre GL JS to the familiar Leaflet API.

Cluster - Easy Map Annotation Clustering 📍

pygeoapi - pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open source and released under an MIT license.

NAMapKit - Allows you to use custom maps in iphone applications and attempts to mimics some of the behaviour of the MapKit framework