fp.

MapLibre is an awesome project, their JS library is by far the best way to display maps in the browser that I've come across. Very excited to eventually switch to this format!

Humphrey•26m ago

This 100%

pratio•33m ago

This is interesting. We recently deployed a solution that uses pmtiles and it's great.

https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/

afaik, pmtiles uses mvt, let's hope the tooling to convert the tiles to mlt also becomes available.

Humphrey•27m ago

Oh pmtiles is such a simple and innovative solution!

dzogchen•6m ago

PMTiles is actually pretty agnostic to what kind of tiles it contains! There is already a PMTiles PR that updates the byte that specifies the type of tile to include MLT.

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/pull/596

jamessb•5m ago

PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other").

[1]: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/blob/main/spec/v3/spec....

Koffiepoeder•10m ago

Had to search a bit, but here's a demo page: https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-... Can be compared with: https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-...

In that example I saw this in the console:

    before - 2.41+26.29+24.87+71.28+59.2+77.57 - 261.62kb
    after  - 2.45+22.4 +22.66+60.6+51.99+77.57 - 237.67kb

So roughly a ~10% compression improvement, neat!