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
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’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
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
, 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
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
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
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
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
, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
It is finally time for a new maplibre-rs monthly! Or should I say yearly? The last update was 2022 and we already have 2023! The development of maplibre-rs did not come to a total standstill, even though it may look like it did. Actually, we have great news about the project.
Jun 7, 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
We had our first monthly meeting of 2023. You find the meeting notes . Feel free to join our next monthly meeting on Wednesday, Feb 8th, 2023. The technical steering committee meetings are open to everyone!
Jan 11, 2023
Considering that MapLibre is an open-source fork of the Mapbox rendering library, many of the Mapbox plugins can be used in conjunction with MapLibre without any issue in JavaScript. However, since MapLibre is a TypeScript library in the same spirit, if you wish to use some of the popular Mapbox…
Jan 4, 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
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers, visit the chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack. You can get an invitation .Technically, this is not a "monthly" as…
Dec 18, 2022
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
Yesterday, we had a first MapLibre Eastern Call at 9 AM CET, the native technical steering committee meeting at 7 PM CET, and the web technical steering committee meeting at 8 PM CET. All notes are avaialbe at . It was great to see so many people from all over…
Dec 15, 2022
MapLibre Native is planning for modularization and migration to Metal, Apple's graphics framework, for rendering on iOS mobile devices. A design proposal for the modularization of the map rendering architecture can be found at https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/pull/547. This modularization will allow new rendering architectures to be implemented quickly and more easily, and…
Oct 28, 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
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers, visit the chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack. You can get an invitation .It has been an exciting summer -…
Sep 24, 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
is an experimental & portable vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers, visit the chat or our Slack at .Together with researches from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES-SO/HEIG-VD) in Switzerland, we published the first scientific paper…
Aug 24, 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
Steering committee meeting notes available .
Jul 13, 2022
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers visit the chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack. You can get an invite .This months we had quite a few…
Jun 26, 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
Steering committee meeting notes available .
Jun 8, 2022
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers visit the chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack. You can get an invite .If you haven't read the last news…
May 23, 2022
The Terrain3D of Max Demmelbauer from was merged into main. Thanks for all the hard work! You can now try out the 3D feature yourself with the pre-release version MapLibre GL JS . Here is a stand-alone Terrain3D example:…
May 20, 2022
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers visit the chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack. You can get an invite .If you haven't read the initial news…
May 13, 2022
Steering committee meeting notes available . Terrain3D can be merged now :) Thanks Max and everyone at Toursprung for their contributions!
May 11, 2022
is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers visit the chat or our Slack at .About one month ago, the MapLibre organisation started to host the maplibre-rs project (formerly known as mapr). I was happy…
May 6, 2022
Steering committee meeting notes available . Terrain 3D might be a matter of days or weeks only until we can merge and make a pre-release.
Apr 6, 2022
Steering committee meeting notes available .
Mar 9, 2022
Steering committee meeting notes available . Terrain 3D is coming soon. Thanks Max and everyone at for contributing this new feature!
Feb 9, 2022
Steering committee meeting notes available .
Nov 10, 2021
Steering committee meeting notes available .
Oct 13, 2021