We are excited to announce the official release of MapLibre Android with Vulkan support! Vulkan is a modern graphics API which brings advantages such as improved performance, improved observability and better stability. Vulkan is poised to replace OpenGL ES eventually on Android. Starting 2026, new devices will only support OpenGL…
Dec 12, 2024
We’d like to share a recent update regarding our at MapLibre. Meena, who has been our Head of Marketing and Fundraising, has transitioned out of her role. We’re grateful for her efforts in fostering connections within our community and with our sponsors. We wish her well in her future…
Nov 12, 2024
, 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 for MapLibre GL JS, one of the first major milestones after the…
Oct 11, 2024
Three new people have joined the MapLibre Team. Please give them a warm welcome! has joined MapLibre as Graphics Engineer. His initial focus will be improvements in MapLibre GL JS in particular in the areas of Terrain 3D and the new Globe feature. Isaac brings expertise in graphics programming…
Oct 4, 2024
The MapLibre Governing Board members serve for a one year term and at the end of August we hold the Board election with representatives of the community, the MapLibre Voting Members. Yesterday, on Thursday, Aug 29th, 2024, the election poll closed and the following people were elected to the Board:…
Aug 30, 2024
Mapme joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. The Silver tier of USD 10,000 will be used for general maintenance of the MapLibre codebases and project coordination. is the versatile tool for creating interactive maps with no coding required. MapLibre is a core component of Mapme's user-friendly platform,
Jun 28, 2024
Mappedin joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program at the Silver tier. With a yearly of USD $10,000, Mappedin supports the maintenance of MapLibre’s codebases and ensures a stable future for the project. By supporting MapLibre, Mappedin strengthens the open-source maps ecosystem and makes its map rendering technology available to everyone.
Mar 26, 2024
Microsoft joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. The Silver tier of USD 80,000 will be used to 20 percent for development of new features and to 80 percent for general maintenance of the MapLibre codebases and project coordination. From the very beginning Microsoft was instrumental in…
Feb 20, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of MapLibre Native for iOS v6.0.0 with Metal support! is a map rendering toolkit written in C++ that can be used on many different . For GPU accelerated real-time rendering, MapLibre Native traditionally relied only on the industry standard graphics API called…
Jan 19, 2024
Meta continues to support MapLibre and increases its donation from the Silver to the Gold tier in its second year of sponsorship. The Gold tier donation of USD 150,000 will be used to 25 percent for development of new features and to 75 percent for general maintenance of the MapLibre…
Nov 8, 2023
The MapLibre Governing Board Elections are finished - all existing Board members have been reelected. Congratulations to the elected Board members and a big thank you to Jonah Adkins for running for the Board as the only newcomer! Prior to the Governing Board Elections, 50 new Voting Members were nominated…
Aug 30, 2023
Radar is joining the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. , CTO at Radar, was so kind to share a few insights into Radar and its relationship to MapLibre below: MapLibre: Radar is Location Infrastructure for mobile and web apps. What role does MapLibre play in your products? Tim:…
Aug 11, 2023
The Governing Board Elections 2023 will take place August 24th, 2023. We want to emphasize the process of nominating Candidates for the Governing Board as well as new Voting Members and are looking forward to your suggestions. Please note the following timeline: Registrations for Candidates for the Governing Board close…
Aug 2, 2023
We are happy to announce that JawgMaps has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program and supports us as a Silver Sponsor! The JawgMaps platform provides enterprise-grade mapping services built from both OpenSource and proprietary tools, as well as OpenStreetMap data. Far from simply being a map customizing tool, Jawg provides you…
Jun 22, 2023
This release is a big step for MapLibre GL JS! With more than 500 commits, and almost a year in the making, version 3.0.0 is surely our best release yet. Lots of features, performance improvement, bug fixes and a few potentially breaking changes that were necessary, to keep the project…
May 23, 2023
We are happy to announce that komoot has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program and supports us as a Silver Sponsor! Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature, and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations,
Apr 6, 2023
We just released version 2.0.0 of . The update comes with the latest version of MapLibre Native (10.0.2) and includes a navigation UI by default. MapLibre Navigation Android is an open source navigation library which allows everyone to build a customized navigation experience on Android. You can easily integrate a lot…
Mar 27, 2023
The Metal project team has started working! The goal is to deliver a Metal beta release for MapLibre Native by the end of 2023. AWS and Meta are teaming up in this effort because they both recognize the importance of Metal as a modern graphics backend on Apple devices. The…
Mar 24, 2023
We are happy to invite you to a second round of voting on Bounty directions. Please let us know which features would be helpful for you and upvote existing suggestions. If you have an idea for a new feature or improvement in the MapLibre rendering engines then share it with…
Mar 13, 2023
MapLibre has completed onboarding of , an SDK that will make MapLibre Native more accessible to mobile developers. The project is a fork of , a community-maintained React Native library for building maps with the Mapbox iOS and Android SDKs. The original project supported both Mapbox and MapLibre backends for some time, but…
Feb 8, 2023
If you speak Japanese and you are interested in map rendering, have a look at the newly created MapLibre User Group Japan. Yasunori Kirimoto and Kanahiro Iguchi who are both are organizing the User Group. The plan is to create online meetups and bring people together who are interested…
Jan 23, 2023
The MapLibre Bounty Program will support the following cross-project directions: Terrain3D, globe view, documentation, performance, Brahmic/Indic scripts, MapLibre Innovation Lab. We invited the broader community to give feedback and share ideas for cross-project directions in a . As of Jan 18th, 2023, the following directions got the most votes: The…
Jan 20, 2023
We are happy to share that we were able to contract Harel Mazor, the long-time lead-maintainer of MapLibre GL JS, for the Maintainer Web role. Please give him a warm welcome! Harel started being involved in the development of GL JS by contributing the function (Pull Request https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/pull/30) function…
Jan 16, 2023
With Ovidiu Voda starting today, we are proud to now have two people working as Maintainers on MapLibre Native. Please give Ovi a warm welcome! Ovi is going to work together with Bart Louwers on Native and he is looking forward to meeting everyone involved in the project. Feel free…
Jan 16, 2023
Alan Wei Chen from is giving a talk about how Grab renders text labels in the Khmer language using FreeType and HarfBuzz in the next MapLibre Eastern Call. Feel free to join the presentation! The next MapLibre Eastern Call is on Wednesday, Feb 8th, 2023 from 9 AM to…
Jan 12, 2023
Today, Bart Louwers is starting to work with MapLibre in the Maintainer Native role. Let's give him a warm welcome! Bart is excited to meet the people involved in the project and learn more about the codebase and the community behind it. Feel free to reach out to Bart and…
Jan 3, 2023
If you have ideas for new features which you would love to see from MapLibre, you can now share your idea and tell us that we should allocate Bounties for it. Bounties are pre-defined cash prizes for development tasks. Every donation from the MapLibre Sponsorship Program has a part which is…
Dec 16, 2022
We thank all our sponsors for their generous financial support and assistance in building the MapLibre Organization. We were successful in securing initial funding and would now like to pay people from the community for coordination, maintenance, and development work. Go to , read more about the available roles, and…
Oct 11, 2022
The MapLibre Governing Board selected to work as Coordinator of the MapLibre Organization. Oliver did this very well until now in his free time, and we need immediate action. We allocated an initial budget cap of $33k for the immediate kick-off and Oliver will work as a freelancer and…
Oct 7, 2022
On Thursday, Aug 25th, 2022, the MapLibre Voting Members elected for the first time a Governing Board and they approved the MapLibre Charter. We thank all the candidates and Voting Members for participating in this process! The new Governing Board consists of the following people (in alphabetic order): The new…
Sep 2, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Meta now is a sponsor of the MapLibre Organization. Thanks for your generous help and for all the trust you put in us! Meta has been involved in the MapLibre Organization since the very beginning, helped setting up the initial fork, and provided guidance…
Aug 26, 2022
We are pleased to announce the Amazon Web Services (AWS) support for the MapLibre Organization as a Platinum Sponsor. Thanks for your generous support and for all the trust you put in us! AWS is an active participant in the MapLibre Organization and community at large. We wanted to know why AWS decided…
Aug 22, 2022
Recently, from Japan decided to support MapLibre financially with a generous donation of USD 10'000, see https://opencollective.com/maplibre. This is the largest ammount that MapLibre has received to date. Thank you MIERUNE Inc., we are very proud that you trust MapLibre and support us! To better understand MIERUNE's background and…
Jun 10, 2022