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MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in the browser

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2021-01-15 · latest 2025-09-12

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  1. …to build and extend kepler, protomaps, maplibre-gl-js https://kepler.gl https://protomaps.com https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js the rest can be found on great Qiusheng Wu’s (aka @giswqs) Geo/GeoAI tutorials channels and repos…
    comment by adeptima · 2025-09-12 · in QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
  2. By far the best self-hostable map solution I've been able to find. I've been using it through https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js for the last couple of months, and it's been almost as easy/simple as leeching off openstreetmap.org…
    comment by homebrewer · 2025-04-29 · in Protomaps: OpenStreetMap vector tiles, self-hostable as one static file
  3. …in OSMUS's slack [2] [1] https://blayne.chard.com/cogeotiff-web/index.html?view=cog&i... [2] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js#getting-involved
    comment by blacha · 2023-07-10 · in Using Lidar to map tree shadows
  4. …tps://openmaptiles.org/docs/style/mapbox-gl-style-spec/ [1] https://www.maptiler.com/open-source/ [2] https://github.com/MapLibre/maplibre-gl-js [3] https://openmaptiles.org/docs/host/tileserver-gl/
    comment by sorenjan · 2022-11-22 · in Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
  5. …with the style spec etc. It’s also actively maintained and has a strong community behind it. 0: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
    comment by jutaz · 2022-08-22 · in Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
  6. …a fork [0]. not sure how actively the fork will be further developed aside from bugfixes. [0] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
    comment by leeoniya · 2022-01-02 · in Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
  7. Really hope that this will be added to OSS fork of Mapbox [1] [1] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
    comment by ordx · 2021-12-13 · in Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
  8. One of these is called MapLibre for the curious. https://maplibre.org/ https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js I've used it on a smaller project, it worked well for me.
    comment by TOMDM · 2021-10-12 · in Getting to the bottom of web map performance
  9. How does it compare to this? https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
    comment by benatkin · 2021-08-16 · in LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
  10. …open-source code to set up your own server at whatever hosting for whatever price you prefer. [1] https://github.com/MapLibre/maplibre-gl-js [2] https://openmaptiles.org/
    comment by dirkt · 2021-05-04 · in Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs
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    MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS
    story by atriix · 2021-04-02 · 29 comments
  12. …that I'm a maintainer of deck.gl ) [0]: https://deck.gl/docs/get-started/using-with-map [1]: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js [2]: https://deck.gl/examples/tile-layer/
    comment by kylebarron · 2021-02-18 · in Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
  13. …has started a mapbox-gl-js 1.x fork called maplibre-gl-js, I'll be migrating to it in the future: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
    comment by hyperknot · 2021-01-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?