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mapbox-gl-js
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
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How I built an interactive atlas of 767 train routes (React + MapLibre + open data)
The map is MapLibre GL JS on OpenFreeMap vector tiles — a free, no-API-key, OpenStreetMap-based tile host. That combination means the whole map costs nothing to run and has no per-tile billing surprise.
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I built a satellite city guessing game using Next.js & MapLibre
Maps Engine: MapLibre GL JS (Open source alternative to Mapbox)
- The MapLibre open-source mapping libraries
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How to build and serve custom simplified maps with OpenMapTiles
In this tutorial, we have introduced techniques for generating simple vector maps: where to retrieve the data, how it can be filtered with Osmium, how OpenMapTiles processes it to generate vector tiles, and finally how tileserver-gl can serve them (although it is not production-ready on its own). From here, you may then want to style your map with Maputnik, explore the user interactions provided by MapLibre, or dig deeper into the transformations performed by OpenMapTiles for each layer.
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Building a 3D Map Application Using Mapterhorn Terrain Data
Mapterhorn is an open data project that publishes terrain data. It creates terrain tiles from various open data sources, such as ESA’s Copernicus DEM and Switzerland’s swissALTI3D, and distributes them in the PMTiles format. The project is led by Oliver (formerly at MapLibre).
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OpenStreetMap's software ecosystem and tools
Unlike commercial products like Google Maps, OpenStreetMap does not have an "official" map library that you are required to use. Among the most popular OSM map libraries for the web are Leaflet, which is the default map viewer on openstreetmap.org, and OpenLayers, which is considered more powerful but has a steeper learning curve. Alternatives like MapLibre have SDKs for web, Android, and iOS. Other popular map libraries can be found on the OSM wiki and Awesome OSM.
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So what is Open Source Software in a Source Available Software world?
Not to mention, it works both ways. You can fork any Amazon's OSS and spin up a SaaS as well. This is literally why Cursor exists. Because they forked VS Code to make it their own. And this is where SAS lacks. If VS Code was licensed using source available licenses, it couldn't have been forked to make Cursor. The software industry in it's current form exists because of OSS. With SAS, it is only about money disguised as limiting "OSS can fork or redistribute" freedom. This means, OpenTofu wouldn't have happened if Terraform was SAS in the first place. MapLibre wouldn't have been possible when Mapbox GL JS became closed source. This is the future so many of the SAS folks are so excited to bring up on to the OSS communities. Listening to these companies using their money and good marketing campaigns about OSS being weak. It is going to make it harder for the small guys to fight against big techs.
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Project of the Week: MapLibre
MapLibre is an open-source JavaScript library for publishing interactive vector maps on websites and applications. Originally forked from Mapbox GL JS in December 2020 (when Mapbox switched to a non-OSS license), MapLibre has evolved significantly beyond being just a replacement. With over 7,700 GitHub stars, 843 forks, and contributions from 551 developers, MapLibre has established itself as the leading open-source solution for web-based vector mapping.
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Self hosted maps for (practically) free
Using OpenStreetMap, ProtoMaps, Maputnik and MapLibre to self host custom maps is a really fun tech adventure! These low cost and serverless maps work on the web, react native, android, and iOS. Break free from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Mapbox!
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
There are plenty non-web vector map renderers, but they generally provide a full GUI widget, not a simple "extent -> png" function. I don't think creating that would be too much work, though: Just set one of those libraries to render to a texture.
Maplibre Native even seems to have a headless "render to PNG" backend: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/tree/main/platfo...
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maplibre/maplibre-native is an open source project licensed under BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of maplibre-native is C++.
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