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At my day job we’re heavily invested in Leaflet for historical reasons, but toward the end of last year added Maplibre as a layer on top of it via the excellent
by jchmbrln 3y ago
At my day job we’re heavily invested in Leaflet for historical reasons, but toward the end of last year added Maplibre as a layer on top of it via the excellent https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet. This has allowed us to begin transitioning gradually instead of being forced to jump all at once.
It’s hard to beat the simplicity of Leaflet, but neither it nor OpenLayers can handle Mapbox Vector Tiles in a performant enough manner, so Maplibre is the future for us.
I was not aware of Microsoft’s involvement. It’s great to see some big players using it too!
- kabes 3y agoNote that openlayers has greatly improved its webgl capabilities last year and seems to offer equal performance for mvt now.
- bdon 3y agoI maintain a small MVT rendering library for Leaflet - I'm overall satisfied with the performance on modern devices, but usually point greenfield projects at MapLibre instead, unless you need some very specific Leaflet plugin. demo: https://protomaps.github.io/protomaps-leaflet/examples/leaflet.html https://protomaps.github.io/protomaps-leaflet/examples/leafl... repo: https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet https://github.com/protomaps/protomaps-leaflet