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Three new people have joined the MapLibre Team. Please give them a warm welcome! Isaac Besora 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Mapme joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. The Silver tier donation of USD 10,000 will be used for general maintenance of the MapLibre codebases and project coordination.

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 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.

Mappedin joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program at the Silver tier. With a yearly donation of USD $10,000, Mappedin supports the maintenance of MapLibre’s codebases and ensures a stable future for the project.

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.

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.

Microsoft joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. The Silver tier donation 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.

MapLibre Newsletter - January 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 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.

MapLibre Newsletter - December 2023 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.

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.

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 codebases and project coordination.

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 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.

The MapLibre Governing Board Elections are finished - all existing Board members have been reelected. MapLibre Governing Board 2023 Birk Skyum Harel Mazor Luke Seelenbinder Petr Pridal Yuri Astrakhan Congratulations to the elected Board members and a big thank you to Jonah Adkins for running for the Board as the only newcomer!

MapLibre Newsletter - August 2023 Highlights Governing Board Elections We want to thank each and every of our 92 (49 new!) Voting Members for their vote and are looking forward to a next great year with our vibrant community.

Radar is joining the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. Tim Julien, CTO at Radar, was so kind to share a few insights into Radar and its relationship to MapLibre below:

Governing Board Elections 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.

MapLibre Newsletter - July 2023 Highlights COVTiles We want to emphasize Markus Tremmel’s input of prototyping a new vector tile format called COVTiles. MapLibre Native Harfbuzz Alan Wei Chen has shared a demo using Harfbuzz to render complex text.

MapLibre Newsletter - June 2023 Highlights JawgMaps We would like to thank JawgMaps for their trust. As you might have read in our previous announcement, JawgMaps has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program and supports us as a Silver Sponsor!

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.

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.

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.

MapLibre Newsletter - May 2023 Highlights Mierune We would like to thank our first sponsor Mierune for their continued trust in MapLibre. MapLibre Innovation Lab Many real-world applications have been built with MapLibre.

MapLibre Newsletter - April 2023 Highlights Komoot joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program as a Silver Sponsor. Welcome komoot, we are glad to have you in the MapLibre community! Read the news announcement…

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.

We just released version 2.0.0 of MapLibre’s navigation library. 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.

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.

MapLibre Newsletter - March 2023 General Bounty Program We invite you to share feedback on what features and improvements in MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native would be helpful for you.

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.

MapLibre Newsletter - February 2023 General We have successfully registered the MapLibre trademark in the US and in the EU. Open Source Collective, our fiscal host, holds the MapLibre trademarks.

MapLibre has completed onboarding of MapLibre React Native, an SDK that will make MapLibre Native more accessible to mobile developers. The project is a fork of rnmapbox, a community-maintained React Native library for building maps with the Mapbox iOS and Android SDKs.

If you speak Japanese and you are interested in map rendering, have a look at the newly created MapLibre User Group Japan. Official Website X Space Yasunori Kirimoto and Kanahiro Iguchi who are both MapLibre Voting Members are organizing the User Group.

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 discussion group on GitHub.

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!

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.

Alan Wei Chen from GrabMaps 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!

We had our first monthly meeting of 2023. You find the meeting notes here. Feel free to join our next monthly meeting on Wednesday, Feb 8th, 2023. The technical steering committee meetings are open to everyone!

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 plugins in your TypeScript application you will likely run into the TypeScript compiler throwing a lot of type inference errors.

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.

maplibre-rs is an upcoming and cross-platform vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers, visit the #maplibre:matrix.org chat or join the MapLibre (#maplibre and #maplibre-rs) community within the OpenStreetMap Slack.

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.

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.

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.