November month has seen a lot of updates from across different projects in Maplibre ecosystem. From mulitple pre-releases for MapLibre GL JS and to groundbreaking udpates in Maplibre Native, there's a lot to explore. In addition, a recent survey shed light on user feedback for flutter Maplibre GL. Don't forget…
Dec 1, 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. We have released versions 5.0.0-pre.2, 5.0.0-pre.3 and 5.0.0-pre.4 this month. One interesting feature that was recently…
Nov 5, 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! In this month three versions were released: 4.7.0, 4.7.1 and 5.0.0-pre.1. The pre-release of version 5 is meant to get some feedback on the newly…
Sep 30, 2024
We are glad to open the August newsletter with a cordial THANK YOU to for continuing to sponsor MapLibre in 2024! At the end of August, the MapLibre Governing Board election 2024 took place. The following people have been elected: Congratulations to the new and old Members of the…
Sep 2, 2024
continues to support MapLibre in 2024 - Thank You!The 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…
Jul 31, 2024
We would like to open the June newsletter by thanking for their continued support as a member of the MapLibre Sponsorship Program! In June 2024, we were also happy to welcome as a new Silver tier sponsor, see . Two minor versions were released: and . Some…
Jun 30, 2024
, 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! In a monthly MapLibre meeting several months ago, presented his research on a new vector tile format and how it might outperform conventional…
May 31, 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! In addition to the usual monthly meetings for MapLibre GL JS and…
Apr 30, 2024
In March 2024, we onboarded 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 who maintained this plugin over the last…
Mar 25, 2024
In February 2024, we were happy to 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. MapLibre's fiscal…
Feb 29, 2024
A lot of great things happened this January: Maputnik, Metal, new releases of MapLibre Native Node bindings and Martin, and hopefully our last prerelease of MapLibre GL JS v4 all appeared this month. We have published a prerelease for MapLibre GL JS v4, see . Unless there should be some…
Jan 30, 2024
MapLibre wishes you all the best for 2024! https://demotiles.maplibre.org 2023 was an interesting year for MapLibre. It was the first time that we had paid maintainers who took care of MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native. Harel Mazor and Bart Louwers are the main people who served in this role…
Dec 30, 2023
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. You can now start testing the version 4 pre-releases…
Nov 30, 2023
Just in time for this newsletter, MapLibre GL JS has gained over . Great that we got so far and thanks to everyone who contributed in the past and made this possible! In the last month, 5 releases of MapLibre GL JS were made. Below you find some highlights, for…
Oct 30, 2023
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 . MapLibre was represented at two events…
Sep 18, 2023
We want to thank each and every of our 92 (49 new!) for their vote and are looking forward to a next great year with our vibrant community. The result of the election will be published separately next week. The new modularized renderer . This happened in three stages:…
Aug 26, 2023
We want to emphasize input of prototyping a new vector tile format called . has shared a demo using Harfbuzz to render complex text. Check out . The new Modularized renderer architecture based on Drawables is being merged. The will be merged into . The last improvement…
Jul 30, 2023
We would like to thank JawgMaps for their trust. As you might have read in our , JawgMaps has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program and supports us as a Silver Sponsor! As part of the effort to implement a Metal backend for iOS, first the renderer needed to be made…
Jun 23, 2023
We would like to thank our first sponsor for their continued trust in MapLibre. Many real-world applications have been built with MapLibre. As suggested it is about bringing the Community together. Implementing new ideas is what will make MapLibre thrive further. We want to recognize all of your…
May 16, 2023
Komoot joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. Welcome komoot, we are glad to have you in the MapLibre community! Read the We released version 2.0.0 of the Android Navigation library. Big thanks to Robin Boldt and everyone who helped with this! Read the The Metal Project Team…
Apr 14, 2023
We invite you to share feedback on what features and improvements in MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native would be helpful for you. Tell us what you need and vote for the things which are most important to you following these . The MapLibre Governing Board will take your feedback…
Mar 20, 2023
We have successfully registered the MapLibre trademark in the and in the . Open Source Collective, our fiscal host, holds the MapLibre trademarks. MapLibre React Native has been published. Thanks Ian, Luke, and Jérôme for contributing this package. Read more . There is an ongoing discussion if a style…
Feb 16, 2023