MapLibre Tiles: A Next Generation Vector Tiles Format specially designed for OSM data

Room: Maasai Mara

Saturday, 12:00
Duration: 20 minutes (plus Q&A)


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  • Markus Tremmel

MapLibre Tiles (MLT) is a new vector tiles format which offers a significant tile size reduction and accelerated decoding performance compared to the de-facto standard Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT). MLT also adds support for missing features like nested properties, linear referencing and M-values. Our evaluation against MVT on a OpenMapTiles schema based OSM tileset shows a reduction in tile size of nearly up to 80% with even faster decoding times. This talk explains how MLT can be used in combination with OSM data and the advantages it offers.