Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
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Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#2The learning curve is pretty steep on GIS stuff in general. But, I found maplibre to work well both pulling out events and pumping in data via PMTiles or GeoJson on my django+htmx stack.
My only major snag was debugging some nonsensical errors when I was testing pmtiles with maplibre on a webserver that didn’t support ranged requests.
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#3The website and the PDF in the about give a general idea of the organization goals but I couldn't figure where are the actual tools and libraries or the source code. :/
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#4The website and the PDF in the about give a general idea of the organization goals but I couldn't figure where are the actual tools and libraries or the source code. :/
Have you checked maplibre on github? https://github.com/maplibre
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#5At 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.
I was not aware of Microsoft’s involvement. It’s great to see some big players using it too!
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#6Awesome news. I think Mapbox made a mistake when they started charging for using their open source library with non Mapbox maps. But it's good that MapLibre picked up the work. I migrated my project to MapLibre a long time ago. Still missing some plugins, but mostly works great.
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#7The website and the PDF in the about give a general idea of the organization goals but I couldn't figure where are the actual tools and libraries or the source code. :/
Have you checked maplibre on github? https://github.com/maplibre
Thank you! I didn't saw it on the page linked for some reason.
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#8Embrace, extend, and extinguish
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#9I started to migrate from Mapbox GL JS but I'm still waiting for 3D globe support to fully switch.
I also need to compare bundle sizes and load times. Last time I checked Mapbox v2 was faster.
Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
#10Knowing Microsoft it's probably for some malicious purposes