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• MapLibre Newsletter October 2024
  Nov 5, 2024 · 3 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - October 2024

  We’re delighted to begin the October newsletter with a gracious and hearty Thank You to Meta for their unwavering support as a sponsor of MapLibre in 2024! We look forward to what is to come.

• Oliver Wipfli leaving the MapLibre Team
  Oct 11, 2024 · 3 minutes read

  Two years ago, MapLibre announced that Oliver would become the first person to work on the MapLibre team in the capacity of coordinator. Oliver has been involved with the project before that, being the reviewer of the now legendary TypeScript migration PR for MapLibre GL JS, one of the first major milestones after the fork.

• MapLibre Newsletter September 2024
  Sep 30, 2024 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - September 2024

  We’re delighted to begin the September newsletter with a heartfelt THANK YOU to Microsoft for their unwavering support as a sponsor of MapLibre in 2024!

• MapLibre Newsletter August 2024
  Sep 2, 2024 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - August 2024

  We are glad to open the August newsletter with a cordial THANK YOU to Radar for continuing to sponsor MapLibre in 2024!

  
  
  

  MapLibre Governing Board Election

  At the end of August, the MapLibre Governing Board election 2024 took place. The following people have been elected:

• MapLibre Newsletter July 2024
  Jul 31, 2024 · 6 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - July 2024

  Jawg Maps continues to support MapLibre in 2024 - Thank You!

  
  
  

  MapLibre Governing Board Election

  The MapLibre Governing Board 2024 election will take place on Thursday, August 29th, 2024. The Governing Board consists of 5 members which get elected by the MapLibre Voting Members. The primary role of the Board is to set the long-term strategy of MapLibre, overview MapLibre’s finances, communicate with sponsors, and oversee MapLibre’s team members. Under normal circumstances, the Governing Board does not engage in technical decisions in the MapLibre codebases. However, should there be an otherwise unresolvable conflict, the Board will have the last word and serves as a last instance in case of a dispute. The Governing Board has quarterly internal meetings as well as quarterly meetings with sponsors.

• MapLibre Newsletter June 2024
  Jun 30, 2024 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - June 2024

  We would like to open the June newsletter by thanking komoot for their continued support as a member of the MapLibre Sponsorship Program!

  
  
  

  In June 2024, we were also happy to welcome Mapme as a new Silver tier sponsor, see announcement.

• MapLibre Newsletter May 2024
  May 31, 2024 · 5 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - May 2024

  Mierune, our first-ever sponsor, has made a donation again to support MapLibre in 2024 for the third year in a row. Thank you so much Mierune!

• MapLibre Newsletter April 2024
  Apr 30, 2024 · 5 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - April 2024

  At the end of March, we were happy to announce that Mappedin, a global leader in indoor mapping and spatial data management, joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program. Let us give a warm welcome to our latest sponsor Mappedin!

• MapLibre Newsletter March 2024
  Mar 25, 2024 · 2 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - March 2024

  In March 2024, we onboarded maplibre-gl-inspect into the MapLibre GitHub organization. MapLibre GL Inspect is a small plugin for MapLibre GL JS that allows you to inspect the contents of vector tiles including the attributes of vector tile features. Special thanks to Andrew Calcutt who maintained this plugin over the last years and made sure it works with MapLibre GL JS.

• MapLibre Newsletter February 2024
  Feb 29, 2024 · 3 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - February 2024

  In February 2024, we were happy to announce that Microsoft has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program. With Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft we now have three companies that have a seat in the MapLibre Advisory Council which meets with members of the MapLibre Governing Board on a quarterly basis.

• Metal Support for MapLibre Native iOS Is Here!
  Jan 19, 2024 · 2 minutes read

  We are excited to announce the release of MapLibre Native for iOS v6.0.0 with Metal support!

  
  
  

  MapLibre Native is a map rendering toolkit written in C++ that can be used on many different platforms. For GPU accelerated real-time rendering, MapLibre Native traditionally relied only on the industry standard graphics API called OpenGL ES. However, in 2018 Apple announced that it would be phasing out OpenGL ES on all Apple platforms in favor of Metal. This put MapLibre at risk of being unusable on Apple devices in the case that OpenGL ES support should be discontinued. With the new Metal rendering backend we are no longer exposed to this risk and users will benefit from the advantages of a state-of-the-art graphics framework.

• MapLibre Newsletter November 2023
  Nov 30, 2023 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - November 2023

  MapLibre GL JS

  v4

  Versions 3.5.2, 3.6.0, 3.6.1 were released, and we started going into the pre-release mode for MapLibre GL JS v4. The most significant breaking change in version 4 will be the replacement of outdated JavaScript callbacks with Promises in several public APIs.

• MapLibre Newsletter October 2023
  Oct 30, 2023 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - October 2023

  MapLibre GL JS

  Just in time for this newsletter, MapLibre GL JS has gained over 5000 Stars on GitHub. Great that we got so far and thanks to everyone who contributed in the past and made this possible!

• MapLibre Newsletter September 2023
  Sep 18, 2023 · 4 minutes read

  MapLibre Newsletter - September 2023

  Governing Board Elections

  It is already one year now that MapLibre has an elected Governing Board, and as the Board members serve a one-year-term, it was time for new Governing Board Elections. We held the Elections and all existing Board members have been re-elected. Read more here.