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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.

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 https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/154.

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 we anticipate that the modularization will give us a concrete framework to better interrogate various migration strategies. Feel free to share your thoughts on this approach in the Pull Request.

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.

The MapLibre Governing Board selected Oliver Wipfli to work as Coordinator of the MapLibre Organization. Oliver did this very well until now in his free time, and we need immediate action.

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. You can get an invitation here.

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!

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 on non-trivial questions around licensing.

maplibre-rs is an experimental & portable vector map renderer written in Rust. If you want to get in touch with the developers, visit the #maplibre:matrix.org chat or our Slack at osmus.slack.com.

Together with researches from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES-SO/HEIG-VD) in Switzerland, we published the first scientific paper about maplibre-rs. It is available as open-access here. The paper includes a comprehensive review of existing open-source map renderers and their portability. We describe the architecture of maplibre-rs and uncover the challenges we encountered.

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!

Steering committee meeting notes available here.

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. You can get an invite here.

Recently, MIERUNE Inc. 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!

Steering committee meeting notes available here.

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. You can get an invite here.

The Terrain3D pull request of Max Demmelbauer from Toursprung 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 v2.2.0-pre.2.

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. You can get an invite here.

Steering committee meeting notes available here. Terrain3D can be merged now :) Thanks Max and everyone at Toursprung for their contributions!

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 our Slack at osmus.slack.com.

About one month ago, the MapLibre organisation started to host the maplibre-rs project (formerly known as mapr). I was happy about the opportunity and the support from the Geo community. It seems like I was not the first with the idea of a map rendering engine in Rust. In the discussion #18 a lot of people showed what they have been working on in the past. The maplibre-rs project is the place where we can bundle our efforts to create a new, unique and fun rendering engine.

Steering committee meeting notes available here. Terrain 3D might be a matter of days or weeks only until we can merge and make a pre-release.

Steering committee meeting notes available here.

Steering committee meeting notes available here. Terrain 3D is coming soon. Thanks Max and everyone at Toursprung for contributing this new feature!

Steering committee meeting notes available here.

Steering committee meeting notes available here.