[HN Gopher] MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox... ___________________________________________________________________ MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS Author : atriix Score : 209 points Date : 2021-04-02 11:10 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | slibhb wrote: | From https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js | | > Mapbox gl-js version 2.0 or higher ("Mapbox Web SDK") must be | used according to the Mapbox Terms of Service. This license | allows developers with a current active Mapbox account to use and | modify the Mapbox Web SDK. Developers may modify the Mapbox Web | SDK code so long as the modifications do not change or interfere | with marked portions of the code related to billing, accounting, | and anonymized data collection. The Mapbox Web SDK only sends | anonymized usage data, which Mapbox uses for fixing bugs and | errors, accounting, and generating aggregated anonymized | statistics. This license terminates automatically if a user no | longer has an active Mapbox account. | | Seems their client code does some things related to "billing, | accounting, and anonymized data collection" and they don't want | programmers to disable or modify that code. | | Is that right? Anyone who has followed this have more | information? I haven't used mapbox in a few years but I think | it's great technology. | Freak_NL wrote: | The software stopped being open source from v2 onwards. The new | licence makes it merely shared source. | | This GitHub issue where this change is announced provides a | number of more in-depth explanations why this is a bad thing | for most users of the software: | https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162 | blendergeek wrote: | The billing is pretty important. | | Using Mapbox GL JS 2.0 offline using a local tile server still | requires an account and a per tile fee. | mourner wrote: | There was a big HN discussion about it a few months back | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310 | icholy wrote: | How does this compare with openlayers? | Doctor_Fegg wrote: | Mapbox GL/MapLibre GL does one thing and does it incredibly | well: vector map rendering from tiled data (MVT format) in the | common Web Mercator projection. | | OpenLayers is a bit more of a Swiss Army knife. It's a valuable | part of many web GIS workflows, but its vector tile rendering | is a long way behind MBGL's. | Waterluvian wrote: | Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end | but fine as a basic Web mapping UI. | | I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when | building complex mapping UIs. | executive wrote: | Exactly the opposite experience. | | Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary. | karussell wrote: | Maplibre is certainly weak in the "GIS front" like | coordinate transformation or WMS stuff etc. | | But yes, the one big feature missing in openlayers is Web | GL support for vector tiles. There was some support for | this but due to bugs (or something else?) they removed it | in the latest version. Note that openlayers has Web GL | support for e.g. point cloud. | Waterluvian wrote: | I do wish Openlayers did WebGL better but I found Mapbox to | be far too primitive to do anything beyond your basic map | views and interactions. | | Once I got to "user has to author their own city data on a | dozen layers" it was missing a lot of authoring features | required. | cejana wrote: | Besides the JS version, the Maplibre project also maintains a | FOSS fork of the matching mobile libraries at | https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native | rijoja wrote: | Cool does anyone have experience of using this? | genericguy wrote: | We are using it at couchers.org. It's a drop-in replacement to | the 1.x versions which were properly open source. | rijoja wrote: | Wow that is cool, good to see a couch surfing alternative. | Have you gotten a decent amount of users? | Mediterraneo10 wrote: | There have been Couchsurfing alternatives for years and | years. BeWelcome is a registered non-profit in France that | has been around since ~2008, while Trustroots (also a | registered non-profit) was founded in 2014 to provide a | site whose web infrastructure could develop more quickly | through hackathons, and would be more friendly to | alternative travelers like hitchhikers. | | The only reason some people saw a need for Couchers is | because they wanted a site that was a more faithful clone | of Couchsurfing, except without Couchsurfing's recent turn | towards paywalls. However, people who have been involved in | internet hospitality exchange for many years are concerned | about this kind of duplication of effort. There were also | concerns about Couchers' non-profit status in the | beginning, but one does have to give them credit for | swiftly resolving that. | vami wrote: | The story behind Mapbox GL: | https://www.maptiler.com/news/2021/01/mapbox-gl-open-source-... | nxpnsv wrote: | I wanted to try this, it so I opened the demo | https://codepen.io/klokan/pen/WNoZRyx and 30 mins later I am lost | looking at Hungarian villages for some reason... | eCa wrote: | Have you tried Geoguessr[1]? | | [1] https://www.geoguessr.com/ (no affiliation) | fit2rule wrote: | Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into | something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village | sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-03 23:00 UTC)