Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes.
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Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes.
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
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.
Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun out to form GeoCompas. The new company focusses on OpenStreetMap editing, data labelling and annotation for AI projects, but also development of data processing pipelines and web services.
An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps.
https://sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-speech-a-method-for-making-web-maps-more-accessible/
Element84 are hosting a three-hour workshop on user-centred design with a specific focus on geospatial applications. The workshop is scheduled for 19 March. Tickets are 75USD.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-user-needs-in-geospatial-applications-tickets-810762571677
Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license.
You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but in some cases, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote up two examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application from a co-located file and S3.
I tried to estimate the cost of hosting Protomaps on AWS before; now there's a handy tool for that.
Webinar on cloud-native technologies and their applications in the pacific region
A new STAC extension proposes an API for collection management.
https://github.com/stac-api-extensions/collection-transaction
Brian Timoney contemplates why talented GIS professionals seek employment in other areas, tracing the problem to broad scoped roles and lower pay compared to similar roles in other industries.
https://mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/what-if-the-fix-for-the-geospatial-workforce-crisis-is-better-pay/
The recordings from this year’s PostGIS day are available on Youtube; just in time so you can add them to your festive tech playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLesw5jpZchueoLk5-dLP4c4wLwiknD-Dk