Awesome MapLibre

A collection of awesome things that use or support MapLibre!

Official Projects

Offical Rendering Projects

• MapLibre GL JS - A map SDK for rendering maps on the Web.
• MapLibre Native - A maps SDK for rendering maps on devices, in apps, and on the server.

Other Official Projects

• MapLibre style specification - The MapLibre Style Specification, a JSON-based format for styling maps.
• Maputnik - A visual style editor for MapLibre GL JS. Hosted at maplibre.org/maputnik
• MapLibre GL Leaflet - A plugin for rendering MapLibre styles in Leaflet.
• MapLibre Demotiles - A simple, XYZ MVT tileset for demonstration projects.
• Martin - A PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, supports tile generation and mbtiles tooling.
• MapLibre RS - Experimental map rendering library written in Rust.
• MapLibre Plugins for Android - A collection of plugins for MapLibre on Android.
• MapLibre Navigation SDK for Android
• MapLibre GL Directions - A plugin to show routing directions on a MapLibre GL JS map

Bindings

Flutter (Dart)

• flutter-maplibre-gl - Bindings for Flutter on Android, iOS and Web, on pub.dev at pub.dev/packages/maplibre_gl

Python

• py-maplibregl - Python bindings for MapLibre GL JS with docs eodagmbh.github.io/py-maplibregl and examples eodagmbh.github.io/py-maplibregl/examples/road_safety.
• leafmap - A python package that supports the MapLibre mapping backend with docs leafmap.org and examples leafmap.org/maplibre/overview
• plotly.py - Create analytical geospatial figures with MapLibre GL JS in python.

Qt (C++)

• maplibre-native-qt - MapLibre Native Qt bindings and Qt Location MapLibre Plugin

JavaScript

Angular

• ngx-maplibre-gl - Angular binding with hosted demos at maplibre.org/ngx-maplibre-gl/demo

Astro

• maps-withastro - Bring Leaflet & MapLibre maps directly into Astro.

Echarts

• echartslayer - Provides an echarts integration.

Elm

• elm-mapbox - Provides an Elm integration.

Ember

• ember-mapbox-gl - Provides an Ember integration.

Jekyll

• jekyll-maplibre - Provides a Jekyll integration (plug-in).

React

• react-map-gl
• react-map-components-maplibre - A React component framework for declarative GIS application development with demos in their showcase and docs
• maplibre-react-components - Lightweight MapLibre only binding for React.
• react-mapbox-gl - Provides a React integration.

Svelte

• sveltekit-maplibre-boilerplate - A preconfigured template repository develop a MapLibre application in svelte/sveltekit.
• svelte-maplibre - Provides a Svelte integration.
• svelte-maplibre-components - A set of maplibre plugins to integrate with svelte/sveltekit. The repository consists of various useful plugins such as export plugin, legend plugin, measure plugin, attribute table plugin, tour plugin, etc.

VueJS

• @indoorequal/vue-maplibre-gl - Vue 3 plugin for maplibre-gl-js

Webtoolkit

• wtMapbox - Provides a Webtoolkit integration.

Vanilla JS

• plotly.js - Create analytical geospatial figures with MapLibre GL JS in javascript.

User Interface Plugins

• any-routing - A modular plugin for calculating routes.
• Gauge Legend - Dynamic gauge legend for MapLibre GL JS
• mapbox-gl-controls - Adds controls for a ruler, style inspector, localization, and style switcher.
• mapbox-gl-draw - Adds support for drawing and editing features on maps.
• mapbox-gl-elevation - Adds a control to retrieve altitude from terrain RGB tilesets.
• mapbox-gl-infobox - Adds a control to display an infobox or a gradient.
• mapbox-gl-legend - Adds a control that shows a legend generated from the map style.
• mapbox-gl-valhalla - Adds a control to provide isochrone features from valhalla server.
• mapboxgl-minimap - Adds a control to show a miniature overview of the current map.
• maplibre-compass-pro - old fashioned compass (with compass rose) for Maplibre GL. demo
• maplibre-preload - A tiny zero-configuration plugin for preloading tiles and smoothen the experience when using targeted movements in MapLibre GL JS.
• maplibre-gl-basemaps - A plugin for switching between raster basemaps.
• maplibre-gl-compare - Enables users to compare two maps by swiping left and right.
• maplibre-gl-export - Adds a control that exports the map as a PDF or images such as PNG, JPEG and SVG.
• maplibre-gl-measures - A plugin for taking measures on the map.
• maplibre-gl-opacity - A plugin to switch layer like Leaflet.control.layers, and update opacities. demo
• maplibre-gl-temporal-control - A plugin to easily animate temporal data. demo
• route-snapper - Draw routes and areas snapped to roads.
• Terra Draw - The library has a MapLibre GL JS adapter to provide drawing and geometry editing functionality to the map

Geocoding & Search Plugins

• mapbox.photon - Adds a control to provide a geocoding feature from Photon API.
• maplibre-gl-geocoder - Adds a geocoder control.
• maplibre-search-box - Adds a control for searching for places using Stadia Maps.
• maptiler-geocoding-control - Adds a geocoding control for searching for places using MapTiler API. docs

Map Rendering Plugins

• deck.gl - Adds advanced WebGL visualization layers.
• flowmap.blue - Render a geographic flow map visualization from a spreadsheet published on Google Sheets.
• H3J / H3T - Light H3 data formats for client side geometry generation and rendering using MapLibre GL JS
• L7-maplibre-gl - Adds large-scale WebGL-powered geospatial data visualization framework to maplibre-gl.demo
• mapbox-gl-language - Automatically localizes the map into the user’s language.
• mapbox-gl-rtl-text - Adds right-to-left text support.
• mapbox-gl-traffic - Hide and show traffic layers on your map with an optional toggle button.
• maplibre-contour - Renders contour lines from raster DEM tiles in MapLibre GL JS.
• maplibre-gl-dates – Filters a time-enabled map by date. Optimized for OpenHistoricalMap vector tiles.
• maplibre-gl-vector-text-protocol - Supports CSV, TSV, Topojson, KML, GPX, and TCX formats using the addProtocol feature.

Layer Types Plugins

• Allmaps Maplibre - A package for displaying georeferenced IIIF images by loading Georeference Annotations and using WebGL to transform and overlay the images on their correct geographical position.
• mapbox-gl-arcgis-featureserver - A library for retrieving features from an ArcGIS FeatureServer or MapServer. This library makes tiled requests rather than simply requesting every feature.
• mapbox-gl-esri-sources - A library for making it easier to use Esri services in MapLibre GL JS. Supports Esri Map Services (dynamic & tiled), Esri Vector Tile Services & Esri Vector Basemap Styles.
• mapbox-gl-flatgeobuf - A library for retrieving features from FlatGeobuf file using a tiled approach. Compatible with MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS.
• mapbox-gl-ogc-feature-collection - A small package for requesting geojson from an OGC Feature API endpoint to serve tiles in MapBox/MapLibre.
• maplibre-google-maps - A library for integrating Google Maps as raster layers into MapLibre GL JS. It uses the new Google Map Tiles API.
• ol-maplibre-layer - Render a MapLibre GL JS map as an OpenLayers layer.
• PMTiles for MapLibre - A library that uses addProtocol to read PMTIles. a single-file format for hosting tilesets without a server or API, just S3 or other storage providers.

Utility Libraries

• expression-jamsession - Converts Mapbox Studio formulas into expressions.
• mapbox-choropleth - Create a choropleth layer from a CSV source and a geometry source.
• mapbox-gl-layer-groups - Manages layer groups.
• mapbox-gl-sync-move - Syncs movement between multiple maps.
• mapbox-gl-utils - Manage layers, sources, and properties with syntactic sugar and convenience functions.
• maplibregl-mapbox-request-transformer - This library provides a request transforming function enabling the consumption of MapboxGL Styles in MapLibreGL.
• maplibregl-theme - Custom themes for your MapLibre GL Web app. Theme customizer
• simplespec-to-gl-style - Converts GeoJSON styles with simplestyle-spec to a MapLibre GL Style.
• turf - provides advanced geospatial analysis tools.

Development Tools Plugins

• mapbox-gl-framerate - A frame rate control to evaluate map rendering performance.
• mapbox-gl-fps - A frames-per-seconds GUI control and measurer with statistic report output.
• maplibre-gl-inspect - Adds an inspect control to view vector source features and properties.

Map/Tile Providers

• Amazon Location Services
• Azure Maps
• Esri
• Geofabrik
• Geoapify
• HERE
• JawgMaps
• Mapbox
• MapTiler
• Mierune
• OSM Americana Community Vector Tile Server
• Protomaps
• Stadia Maps
• TomTom

In bold: Members of the MapLibre Sponsorship Program

Utilities

• Font Maker - web app to convert font files into SDF fontstacks for use in MapLibre.
• Headless Node Renderer - Headless Node.js MapGL renderer for generating MBTiles with styled raster tiles.
• MapBlockly - MapBlockly is a simple and fun way to learn and build Map with Blockly using MapLibre.
• MapInventor - MapInventor is the visual language built on top of MapBlockly.
• Theme - Custom themes for your MapLibre GL Js Web app. demo
• MapLibre VSCode Extension - VSCode Extension for viewing/editing MapLibre Style.
• chiitiler - chiitiler - "Tiny MapLibre Server" is alternative to TileserverGL, designed to runs on serverless infrastructures. demo

Sprites

• Spreet - Spreet is a command-line tool that creates a spritesheet (aka texture atlas) from a directory of SVG images.
• Figmasset - Figmasset is a tool to facilitate bulk-loading assets from Figma into a JavaScript application.
• Sprite One - Generate sprite image and json without Mapnik.

Users

• Kibana, a browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch has migrated to MapLibre
• Israel Hiking Map has maps, route planning, and travel information for Israel. Migrated to MapLibre.
• MapLibre Storytelling - a storytelling template using MapLibre GL JS which can be hosted as static HTML or using Node.
• OpenStreetMap Americana Style - A quintessentially American map style, powered by MapLibre
• On The Go Map - A website for planning running and biking routes. Migrated to MapLibre
• NZ’s authoritative and open digital basemap service for LINZ and the public is using MapLibre
• Vremenar Weather, a cross-platform app to display weather conditions and forecast on a map. Using MapLibre Native.
• TatraMap.eu, a 3D map of Tatra Mountains powered by MapLibre.
• TravelerMap.net, a website which allows to explore National Parks
• The Wikipedia app for Android uses to display articles with coordinates.
• Queering the Map (Code) - A crowd-sourced platform for anonymously pinning queer experiences on a global map.
• OpenHistoricalMap – collaborative project to map the history of the world in detail, powered by MapLibre with maplibre-gl-leaflet
• Famxplor, interactive world map of activities for family vacations, powered by MapLibre with Svelte MapLibre
• StreetComplete — Easy to use mobile OpenStreetMap editor used for mapping in the field