I switched that client over to Maplibre and never looked back. Anyways, I was trying to give them money, and they wouldn't even acknowledge I exist. That client wasn't even using any of their server resources, they are 100% self hosted, it's just that Mapbox now charges even for using their client. It wouldn't have been a huge amount of money, probably a few hundred per month, but they never, ever reply. I was using Mapbox for all my clients before their unopen sourcing, and I tried reaching out three times to ask about options for one of my clients. Now they're source available and not interested in anything but big clients. They used to be low-cost _and_ open source. And now they are pooling resources to create a cheaper, more open alternative to all that. The big companies behind overture are each big customers for this stuff. Basically what the above mentioned companies do is creating proprietary services and data (with and without open data typically) that they then sell access to for a lot of money. Openstreetmap is nice but also has some pretty significant limitations. The recently announced overture collaboration could actually shake things up a little in this space. It's all the other stuff that's built on top of that that is a lot harder and more valuable. Maps are a commodity at this point and there's very little money in providing just some basic maps. Customers for these services tend to spend a lot of money on getting all sorts of bespoke solutions. Think of indoor maps, traffic services, routing, geo coding, address search (surprisingly hard problem with open data), etc. The most simple one of which is showing maps. Mapbox is increasingly an alternative to Here, Tom Tom and a few others that offer a wide range of services. So, I know a thing or two about this market and still know some people working with various map companies, including at mapbox. I actually used to work with Nokia and Nokia Maps (in Berlin), which is now Here Maps. But honestly, map tiler is good value for money for now. I might invest some time at some point in self hosting tiles. We switched to that from leaflet and I've been pretty happy with it. We use maplibre and map tiler for the map tiles in the startup that I run. The next challenge is to evolve the tech stack to something beyond what Mapbox worked up five/ten years ago. But, PMTiles aside, this is still Mapbox’s world. It’s great that people are now shipping production vector tiles without paying the Mapbox dollar. It’s now mostly known for a reasonable, not particularly exceptional vector tile schema. OpenMapTiles started life as basically a how-to/makefile pulling together the disparate, poorly documented parts of Mapbox’s open source tile generation code. Maputnik is an open source reimplementation of Mapbox Studio. Maplibre GL (which I use and like very much) is a fork of the last open source version of Mapbox GL, with not many code changes between now and then. PMTiles is genuinely innovative and I’m delighted to see it getting traction. Let’s not pretend that much of this is anything other than “open source clones of Mapbox”. In the case you created a custom map derived from the older version of the map style, then you may include the changes manually using the Advanced Editor.> But for most of our use cases, we don’t need the latest and greatest. If you are using an older version of the map you may consider upgrading to the new version of the map by simply adding '-v2' to the URL used in your application.įor example, when using the Basic style, you may replace this URL: You just have to select the one you like from the Map Wizard to get started.įor each Standard Map, you may notice the newly added '-v2' string in the map identifier, as shown below. The new map styles have been available in production since December 2022, so the new version of the map style is used by default when creating a new map. This makes the maps better, more consistent, and easier to edit in the Advanced Editor. The systematic use of the HSL color space Simpler and consistent layer names across all map styles A reduced number of layers, now using simple to advanced style expressions. Newly added and improved map style presets, available from the Map Wizard. A refreshed look and feel with adjusted colors, fonts, and icons More map features at every zoom level and faster performance The new map styles bring several major improvements, including: Please see the Maps list to know the current status. Previous versions are still available but are not listed in the MapTiler Cloud user interface anymore. Version 2 of the Standard Maps is now offered by default in the Maps section of MapTiler Cloud, as well as in the Customize tool and Advanced Editor.
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