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MapLibre @maplibre.org · 4d

🔖MapLibre September 2025 Newsletter is out!

Highlights: tackling tech debt in Maputnik, iOS support in Flutter, Martin marching toward v1.0, & onboarding Spatial K.

👉 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-10...

#MapLibre #OpenSource #FOSS4G #Openstreetmap

MapLibre Newsletter September 2025

The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · 16d

📱Join the #maplibrenative Hackathon!

Hack on the Native codebase with expert guidance & showcase your work at the Nov monthly meeting!

🗓️ Kick-off: Oct 27 | Office Hours: Nov 3 & 10
✍ Sign up: tinyurl.com/maplibre-nat...

#maplibre #opensource #hackathon #OpenStreetMap #foss4g

MapLibre Native Hackathon

We are organizing a MapLibre Native Hackathon! This is your chance to hack on the MapLibre Native codebase, while getting guidance from expert contributors. Anything goes: use the new proposed plugin...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · 18d

🎉 Results of the 2025 MapLibre Governing Board election are in! 🗳️

We’re excited to welcome new Board members and thank outgoing ones for their contributions. 🙏

👉 Full details on our blog: maplibre.org/news/2025-09...

#maplibre #foss4g #opensource #openstreetmap

Results of the 2025 MapLibre Governing Board Election

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Sep 5

📢 MapLibre August 2025 Newsletter is out!

🙏 Thanks to @microsoft.com for becoming a Gold Sponsor
🗳️ New Voting Members
🎉 Slint SDK for MapLibre Native
👥 Sponsoring @IndiaFOSS & ticket giveaway

📖 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-09...

#openstreetmap #maplibre #foss4g #opensource

MapLibre Newsletter August 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 Major @maplibre.org success: @rivianofficial.bsky.social integrates a commercial map data source (Google) with the Open Source map visualization stack (MapLibre), offering flexibility and styling consistency across multiple platforms, while avoiding vendor lock-in

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Also as part of this Rivian Navigation with Google Maps we've elected to | Colin Crenshaw

Also as part of this Rivian Navigation with Google Maps we've elected to adapt MapLibre to our needs allowing us to quickly iterate and optimize for our specific hardware. We were able to increase...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Aug 6

🚀 MapLibre July 2025 Newsletter is out!

What's news: complex script support in Native, Martin’s refreshed UI, and Board election process now open 🗳️

🙏 Thanks to Jawg Maps for renewed sponsorship.

📖 Read: maplibre.org/news/2025-08...

#mapLibre #openstreetmap #foss4g #opensource

MapLibre Newsletter July 2025

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jul 30

MapLibre 2025 Board election process has begun!

We’re now accepting nominations for Voting Members and Governing Board candidates. .

📅 Nominations close: August 15, 2025
👉 More details on GitHub: github.com/maplibre/map...

#maplibre #openstreetmap #opensource #foss4g

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jul 7

We’ve had a fantastic round of conferences so far:
✨ State of the Map US , all materials available at: github.com/maplibre/wor...
✨ FOSS4G Netherlands

Next stop @foss4ge, meet our team and join the conversation on open source mapping
#maplibre #foss4g #FOSS4GE #mostar #osgeo

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jul 3

June 2025 #MapLibre newsletter here with updates on:

💙 Renewed sponsorship from Mapme
🌍 Project updates + new features
🎤 MapLibre talks at #FOSS4GEurope 2025
🗓️ Upcoming community meetings

Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-07...

#openstreetmap #foss4g #gis #opensource

MapLibre Newsletter June 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at @stateofthemapus.bsky.social in Boston! I am not certain if there will be a recording, but the slides are here docs.google.com/presentation...

2025-06 MapLibre @ SOTMUS Boston

Yuri Astrakhan @nyuriks Bart Louwers @louwers CC BY 2.0 State of Map Data OpenStreetMap, Style OpenMapTiles

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jun 19

MapLibre is at #sotmus this year with two sessions:

📍 June 19, 1 - 2PM, Workshop: Make your own basemap w/ MapLibre + Planetiler (Foundry Shop 6)
📍 June 20, 10:45 - 11AM , State of MapLibre talk (BU Auditorium)

Come say hi!

#maplibre #foss4g #openstreetmap

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jun 5

MapLibre's May 2025 newsletter is here, with updates on sponsorship renewal, welcoming a new team member, onboarding a new hosted project & meeting the team at SOTM US 🎉

Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-06...

#maplibre #openstreetmap #foss4g #opensource #sotmus

MapLibre Newsletter May 2025

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · May 5

MapLibre April 2025 Newsletter is out! New releases across Native, GL JS & more!

Read all the updates here: maplibre.org/news/2025-05...

#openstreetmap #maplibre #foss #opensource

MapLibre Newsletter April 2025

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Apr 14

💼 We’re hiring a Graphics Engineer (Web)!

Come work with us to shape the future of fast, interactive web maps with MapLibre GL JS, our open-source mapping engine.

🔗 Apply now: maplibre.org/jobs/graphic...

#RemoteJob #OpenSource #MapLibre #FOSS #OpenStreetMap

Graphics Engineer (Web)

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Apr 9

📣 MapLibre Q1 2025 Board meeting summary is live!

Covers sponsorships, financial transparency, team updates, and contributor recognition.

🗣️ Join the discussion: github.com/maplibre/map...

#MapLibre #FOSS4G #OpenSource #OpenStreetMap

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Apr 7

🚀 MapLibre March updates are here!

• Native & GL JS releases
• Rust support in progress
• Martin v0.16 adds style serving

💚 Thanks to @maptiler.bsky.social for joining as a Silver Sponsor!

📬 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-04...

#openstreetmap #maplibre #opensource #gis #foss

MapLibre Newsletter March 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Apr 7

Martin v0.16 is out, now supporting style sheet serving, plus nemerous other features and bug fixes... On top of that, Martin has been found to be the fastest map tile server! github.com/maplibre/mar...

Release v0.16.0 · maplibre/martin

Major Changes Support for style serving, allowing Martin to host MapLibre style files. What's Changed Fix test by @sharkAndshark in #1642 Ignore features ordering in test by @sharkAndshark in #1...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Apr 2

🎉 A long-time contributor to open-source mapping, @maptiler.bsky.social joins MapLibre as a silver sponsor 🌍

Read more 👉 maplibre.org/news/2025-03...

#MapLibre #MapTiler #OpenSource #GIS #OpenStreetMap

MapTiler becomes a MapLibre Silver Sponsor

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Mar 4

🚀 MapLibre February 2025 Updates – New Community Spotlight, MLT advancements, and expanded monthly meetings!
📅 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-03...

#OpenStreetMap #MapLibre #OpenSource #GIS

MapLibre Newsletter February 2025

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Feb 15

I just discovered a guide to using #martin-tile-server , looks like a good starting point. Big thx to Rilus for posting. medium.com/illumination...

My Martin Tile Server Setup!

Another great tool written in Rust 🦀

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Feb 4

📢 January 2025 Newsletter is here! We’re kicking off the year with exciting updates:
⚙️ Rust support progress for Native
🔤 Web font improvements in GL JS

💡 Read more: 🔗 maplibre.org/news/2025-02...

#MapLibre #OpenStreetMap #OpenSource #Geospatial #FOSS

MapLibre Newsletter January 2025

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jan 28

MapLibre Eastern Call after a pause! 🌏

📅 Date: Jan 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00–10:00 AM UTC
🔗 Join Here: tinyurl.com/maplibre-eas...

This call will now be held on the last Wednesday of every month, tailored for the eastern part of the world.

See you there!

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Protomaps @protomaps.com · Jan 24

The Maputnik editor for @maplibre.org supports vector PMTiles sources now:

maplibre.org/maputnik

Thanks to @implgeo.bsky.social, HarelM, WebFreak001 and ShellyDCMS for contributing on GitHub!

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Yuri Astrakhan @nyurik.bsky.social · Jan 16

🎉 #MapLibre Native project just merged its first #Rust component, building for all platforms with Bazel and CMake support. This should allow simpler onboarding of the fast, stable, and secure rust components with minimal risk, and attract more contributors @maplibre.org github.com/maplibre/map...

Allow compiling with Rust code by louwers · Pull Request #3137 · maplibre/maplibre-native

Continuation of #2647 Adds optional support for Rust code in the source tree. Replaces csscolorparser.hpp with a Rust library by way of proof-of-concept. Use -DMLN_USE_RUST=ON with CMake or ://use...

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MapLibre @maplibre.org · Jan 6

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉

🌍 MapLibre GL JS v5: Now with Globe Mode for seamless 3D global visualizations!

📅 Eastern-Friendly Calls: Back every last Wednesday of the month.

👉 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-01...

#MapLibre #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibreGLJS5

MapLibre Newsletter December 2024

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