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.
Libreoffice is the main project now when they left openoffice.
Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
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Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
A big difference moving from OpenLayers and Leaflet to MapLibre GL is that you can use vector tiles and style them in the browser as opposed to rendering PNG files on the server. Converting OpenStreetMap to vector tiles is implemented by OpenMapTiles and they also have some open map styles.
no, openlayers supports vector tiles out-of-the-box and leaflet with a plugin
True, OpenLayers and Leaflet have some support for vector tiles. However, you cannot rely on it because the performance is not there to render a normal map. Alternatively, you can use maplibre-gl-leaflet to integrate the two but it's experimental with some significant caveats.
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#73I'm one of the folks behind the fork (and part of the initial steering committee). Happy to answer any questions!
Hey Luke, another great one from you :-)
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#74I'm one of the folks behind the fork (and part of the initial steering committee). Happy to answer any questions!
What is the additional functionality? I couldn't find any document comparing MapLibre GL to MapBox GL JS 1.x.
We are using MapTiler along with MapBox GL JS. It seems that MapLibre GL JS is our next logical upgrade step. For one it's great that you have a Leaflet plugin under your github org.
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#75Same 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.
care to elobrate a bit?
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question! There's a lot of Map s and it's very unclear how they all fit together without prior experience. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community-driven, fully open and usable data library. It has usable data for almost the entire world for everything from cities, roads, houses, parks, country borders, and work. It's a database of everything you need to make map. They also have a website that renders that map, but i…
Leaflet started because openlayers was very clunky. But since the major rewrite of openlayers v3 it's become a great choice and the author of leaflet has stated here on hackernews hat it's probably what you should use these days
Sorry, but I never stated such a thing. OpenLayers is great when you want all possible features/formats ever created baked in, and excels for certain use cases such as GIS academia, but Leaflet is still the library of choice for most raster-based maps — intentionally simple, lightweight, very easy to use, carefully designed, extremely stable, extensible and working beautifully.
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#77I'm one of the folks behind the fork (and part of the initial steering committee). Happy to answer any questions!
I noticed that Mapbox Studio has a way of creating & exporting styles (kinda like stylesheets but for maps). Do you know if those styles can be imported into a libre renderer like Maplibre, or if a similar tool/ecosystem exists for creating & sharing open-source map styles? Like if I wanted all roads to be rainbow-colored and rivers to be green. In Mapbox Studio, the features all seem to be semantically tagged (e.g.…
The exported styles are compatible (if you don't use newer features like terrain & fog) because Maplibre is nearly identical to GL JS v1.13, there were no rendering changes since the fork.
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#78This 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.
Libreoffice is the main project now when they left openoffice.
Libreoffice + syncthing was my recent attempt at replacing Google Drive/Docs.
The latest mac version of Libreoffice is nearly unusably laggy even on brand new fast hardware with lots of ram, and it looks like garbage to boot.
Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#79Re: Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaflet started because openlayers was very clunky. But since the major rewrite of openlayers v3 it's become a great choice and the author of leaflet has stated here on hackernews hat it's probably what you should use these days
Sorry, but I never stated such a thing. OpenLayers is great when you want all possible features/formats ever created baked in, and excels for certain use cases such as GIS academia, but Leaflet is still the library of choice for most raster-based maps — intentionally simple, lightweight, very easy to use, carefully designed, extremely stable, extensible and working beautifully.
I must agree. The simplicity and versatility of Leaflet makes it a mapping library par excellence.