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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Post by kabes »

jchmbrln wrote: post #5

At 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…

Note that openlayers has greatly improved its webgl capabilities last year and seems to offer equal performance for mvt now.

Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Post by bdon »

jchmbrln wrote: post #5

At 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…

I maintain a small MVT rendering library for Leaflet - I'm overall satisfied with the performance on modern devices, but usually point greenfield projects at MapLibre instead, unless you need some very specific Leaflet plugin.

demo: https://protomaps.github.io/protomaps-leaflet/examples/leafl... repo: https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet

Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Post by qwertox »

This is extremely good news.

MapLibre is an awesome project, but it has huge problems with 3D terrain. In my opinion the entire 3D "stack" needs to be completely rewritten in order to properly support terrain, because navigation panning/zooming is badly broken, where the devil is in the detail. At a first glance all seems OK, but when you really use it, you'll notice that it's pure chaos which leads to errors in navigation. Also overlaying images over terrain is broken. It's always terrain what causes the problem.

In 2D it's rock solid.

Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Post by dzogchen »

clementmas wrote: post #9

I 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.

It is being worked on! https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/161

Re: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

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Post by astrange »

> Bing Maps deploys MapLibre GL JS in production, a feat which was only possible thanks to performance improvements that were contributed to MapLibre by Bing Maps Engineers.

Does anyone ever use Bing maps for anything?

Sometimes when I see a complaint about Apple/Google Maps I like to check Bing Maps for the same thing. I invariably find it's even worse, but nobody noticed because they didn't look.

They do occasionally have the best quality satellite maps though; nobody likes updating those because they're very expensive and generally the least useful mode.

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