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Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork

by klokan on 6/23/21, 3:30 PM with 83 comments

  • by lukeqsee on 6/23/21, 3:35 PM

    I'm one of the folks behind the fork (and part of the initial steering committee). Happy to answer any questions!
  • by jeffbee on 6/23/21, 11:35 PM

    This is going to be a good test of my rule that any project with "libre" in the name -- except, as my astute colleague pointed out, libreadline -- is doomed to failure.
  • by derekja on 6/24/21, 12:13 AM

    I don’t see any support for alternate projections. For my raster-based dataset (satellite data) of polar regions I don’t see any benefit over my current openlayers approach. Looks great for vector-based 4326/3857 projected data, though! Please let me know if I’ve overlooked projection support?
  • by DrBenCarson on 6/23/21, 4:00 PM

    Forgive me if obvious—where are you pulling the underlying data from? Is the data itself OS licensed?
  • by klokan on 6/23/21, 3:30 PM

    Open-source mapping libraries for developers using JavaScript, Android, iOS and more...
  • by ldng on 6/23/21, 8:39 PM

    Same acceleration bug with Firefox under Linux that makes me hates Mapbox GL with passion ... Makes quite a lot of website unbearably unusable ...

    Would you please provide a way for the user to deactivate that terrible idea ? Thanks.

  • by kennydude on 6/23/21, 4:11 PM

    The smoothness on the demo (at least on my machine) is very nice. Good work :)
  • by westnordost on 6/23/21, 4:57 PM

    If it is true that Apple will soon drop OpenGL and only support Metal:

    Will the SDK also work on iOS and Mac then, i.e. has Metal support?

  • by andrewljohnson on 6/23/21, 9:33 PM

    This needs really solid Metal support or it won't be adopted on mobile.