We've been working hard on our latest vector style - Transport! Our familiar global transportation map is now available in our Vector Styles API, for use with your #maplibre projects.

https://www.thunderforest.com/maps/transport/preview/vector-styles-api/

It's our most complex client-side style so far, but I'm very pleased with how it's turned out.

Feedback is always welcome!

#thunderforest

Where does your commune host email? I did an analysis via DNS records and plotted it on a map:

https://mxmap.ch/

This is an early version, looking for feedback 👀

#digitalsovereignty #dns

Have you ever wanted a clean, scalable SVG map? We've developed a SVG map renderer that can also be used as a MapLibre plugin.

Try it out by clicking the button in the top right-hand corner of this page: https://versatiles.org/versatiles-svg-renderer/demo/

Symbols and text are not yet supported, but contributions are welcome!

Repo: https://github.com/versatiles-org/versatiles-svg-renderer
Visual comparison: https://versatiles.org/versatiles-svg-renderer/e2e/report.html

One of my highlights of yesterday's Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that's made for #children! If you're zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops.

When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those!

It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.

New from Development Seed: deck.gl-raster. 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. No server required.

This is a 1.3 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 COG, streamed directly into the browser. Explore it yourself: https://developmentseed.org/deck.gl-raster/examples/land-cover/

- GPU-accelerated raster reprojection supports images from nearly all projections
- GPU-accelerated image processing to apply colormaps, filter out nodata values, convert color spaces, & more
- Efficient use of COG overviews to fetch the minimum data required

https://github.com/developmentseed/deck.gl-raster

At FOSS4G Auckland 2025, we, MIERUNE Inc., had four talks about various topics from GTFS to GeoArrow. This is a quick summary of the presentation titles and the links to the slides🔗

https://dev.to/mierune/foss4g-auckland-2025-4pck

shipped a new feature on https://placemark.io/ that i've had on the list for 3+ years: drawing with automatic routing.

represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring.

currently uses the mapbox directions api.

very beta - there's some tricky logic around control points that i'l need to get right.

title text: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3167
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3167
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167