Besides the JS version, the Maplibre project also maintains a FOSS fork of the matching mobile libraries at https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native
MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
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Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#12How does this compare with openlayers?
Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end but fine as a basic Web mapping UI.
I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when building complex mapping UIs.
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#13From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher (“Mapbox Web SDK”) must be used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere with marked portions of the code related to billing, acco…
The billing is pretty important.
Using Mapbox GL JS 2.0 offline using a local tile server still requires an account and a per tile fee.
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#14The story behind Mapbox GL: https://www.maptiler.com/news/2021/01/mapbox-gl-open-source-...
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#15How does this compare with openlayers?
Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end but fine as a basic Web mapping UI. I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when building complex mapping UIs.
Exactly the opposite experience.
Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary.
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#16How does this compare with openlayers?
Mapbox GL/MapLibre GL does one thing and does it incredibly well: vector map rendering from tiled data (MVT format) in the common Web Mercator projection.
OpenLayers is a bit more of a Swiss Army knife. It's a valuable part of many web GIS workflows, but its vector tile rendering is a long way behind MBGL's.
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end but fine as a basic Web mapping UI. I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when building complex mapping UIs.
Exactly the opposite experience. Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary.
Maplibre is certainly weak in the "GIS front" like coordinate transformation or WMS stuff etc.
But yes, the one big feature missing in openlayers is Web GL support for vector tiles. There was some support for this but due to bugs (or something else?) they removed it in the latest version. Note that openlayers has Web GL support for e.g. point cloud.
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#18From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher (“Mapbox Web SDK”) must be used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere with marked portions of the code related to billing, acco…
The software stopped being open source from v2 onwards. The new licence makes it merely shared source.
This GitHub issue where this change is announced provides a number of more in-depth explanations why this is a bad thing for most users of the software: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162
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#19I wanted to try this, it so I opened the demo https://codepen.io/klokan/pen/WNoZRyx and 30 mins later I am lost looking at Hungarian villages for some reason...
Have you tried Geoguessr[1]?
[1] https://www.geoguessr.com/ (no affiliation)
Re: MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end but fine as a basic Web mapping UI. I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when building complex mapping UIs.
Exactly the opposite experience. Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary.
I do wish Openlayers did WebGL better but I found Mapbox to be far too primitive to do anything beyond your basic map views and interactions.
Once I got to "user has to author their own city data on a dozen layers" it was missing a lot of authoring features required.