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by Waterluvian 1901 days ago
Last time I tried, Mapbox is very primitive as a GIS front end but fine as a basic Web mapping UI.

I find that Openlayers has more of the capabilities I need when building complex mapping UIs.
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executive 1901 days ago
Exactly the opposite experience.

Openlayers Web GL suppot is rudimentary.

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karussell 1901 days ago
Maplibre is certainly weak in the "GIS front" like coordinate transformation or WMS stuff etc.

But yes, the one big feature missing in openlayers is Web GL support for vector tiles. There was some support for this but due to bugs (or something else?) they removed it in the latest version. Note that openlayers has Web GL support for e.g. point cloud.

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Waterluvian 1901 days ago
I do wish Openlayers did WebGL better but I found Mapbox to be far too primitive to do anything beyond your basic map views and interactions.

Once I got to "user has to author their own city data on a dozen layers" it was missing a lot of authoring features required.

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