Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes.
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In the accompanying blog post, Cameron also shares a whole lot of practical tips to make producing tiles with Tippecanoe a little less painful.
https://medium.com/fika-blog/the-dark-art-of-vector-map-tiling-b417a3813df5
Tippecanoe Command Generator — A neat user interface to compose commands to create map tiles with Tippecanoe
https://maptiling.streamlit.app/Tippecanoe_Command_Generator
OpenCage 👉🌍State of the Map Europe 2025 announced!
Dundee, Scotland 🏴, 14-15 November 2025
The SparkGeo team has tested AI coding assistant Lovable and asked it to create a simple interactive map showing Canadian cities and their population—with mixed results.
https://latlong.blog/2025/04/making-an-ai-generated-web-map-with-lovable.html
The good folks at Heigit have released ohsome-planet, a handy tool to turn OpenStreetMap history data from PBF into GeoParquet files.
Apple Is Showing Indigenous Land on Maps
https://latlong.blog/2025/03/apple-is-showing-indigenous-land-on-maps.html
I love a good deep dive into often-overlooked map-related challenges. Here Hanbyul Jo wonders why Mapbox chose to vertically display labels in Hangul, whether the choice improves legibility, and since when Koreans horizontally read and write Hangul instead of vertically.
https://hanbyul.xyz/words/vertical-writing-of-hangul-on-maps-en/
Five geospatial projects are amongst the mentoring organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024. OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps and the Open Transit Software Foundation offer internships this year.
Protomaps Transitions to New Funding Model. Access to a commercial API and professional services can be purchased through GitHub sponsorships.
Transitioning Protomaps from Open Core to Open Source
The Protomaps Project has gained several new repositories in the past year, including the serverless implementations for AWS and Cloudflare, and a new basemaps repository, which generates a full planet PMTiles archive from OpenStreetMap. A free daily build of the planet output is available on maps.protomaps.com/builds. These additional components complete the transition from an open core project into an open source one, distributed under a standard BSD License. What is Open Core?