[nyuriks]

Just to set the record straight: MapTiler is *not* the maintainer of MapLibre. MapTiler is *one of* many participating companies in the MapLibre organization, which has a board and a charter [1].

Amazon has donated $300,000 to MapLibre, Facebook - $80,000, TomTom - $10,000, and lots more companies have donated. Most of the code maintenance is done by various volunteers and companies, e.g. Amazon has hired a whole team of engineers to work on MapLibre native, etc.

P.S. I came up with the name MapLibre, called people to unite around this effort, and am on the board of the MapLibre organization. [2]

[1]: https://maplibre.org/charter/ [2]: https://twitter.com/nyuriks/status/1336493514646052864

[lagrange77]

I'm almost too afraid to ask, but is WebGL rendering really necessary for displaying an interactive 2D vector map as opposed to using SVG or Canvas?

Is it, because sth. like a full street network layer would degrade performance too quickly?

[bdon]

If you want to display infinite fractional zoom levels, WebGL is mandatory. That's what most consumers will expect from a high fidelity map application, because that's the way Google and Apple Maps work.

[basicplus2]

High Fidelity.. Pity their road names don't zoom up to some degree.. it is so hard to read the road names, that as an old bugger i need a magnifying glass..

[spiekerooger]

Not vector but raster with leaflet: would https://www.osmap.uk/larger-text/ (as an example) help in reading road names?

[lagrange77]

Infinite fractional zoom levels, right thanks.

[Aeolun]

I think running stuff like that on the GPU is just more efficient than running it on anything else.