Basemaps Made With MapLibre, Planetiler, Maputnik, and PMTiles
Oliver Wipfli - MapLibre (remote). Oliver Wipfli grew up in Switzerland and went to highschool near Basel with a focus on Music. After this he studied Physics at EPFL in Lausanne with an exchange year at Imperial College in London. For his Master studies, he went to Z�rich and studied Quantum Physics at ETH Z�rich. After a one-year stay in Boulder, Colorado for his master thesis project, he returned to Z�rich to complete a PhD in the Trapped Ion Quantum Information research group at ETH Z�rich. Oliver has a deep passion for hot-air ballooning. In 2011, he received a Balloon Pilot License and ever since he flies hot-air balloons on a regular basis in Switzerland. While building a hot-air balloon tracking device, Oliver made first encounters with online maps that were based on open-source technologies. This was how Oliver came in touch with the MapLibre community which over the years became an endless source of inspiration, a group of good friends, and a home.
In this talk, I will give an outline of the MapLibre Organization and our core map rendering toolkits MapLibre GL JS for web and MapLibre Native for iOS and Android. I will also highlight technologies of the vector tile ecosystem including the tile generator Planetiler, style editor Maputnik, and storage format PMTiles.