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✨ Features and improvements Show the sky in globe view, fading out with altitude instead of with the globe to mercator transition (#8464) (by @birkskyum) Speed up fill and fill-extrusion triangula...

Why LandSearch left Mapbox and Amazon Location Service for Stadia Maps satellite imagery, and how it uses tiles as listing photos for remote land.

How processing OSM water data at every zoom level removed coastline jumps in Stamen Terrain, preserved more detail, and shrank low-zoom vector tiles.

Hillshade postprocessing Martin can now bake a hillshade from a source serving Mapzen normal tiles, so clients get shaded relief instead of a normal map they have to shade themselves. passthrough: ...

✨ Features and improvements Add map.getStyleUrl(), which returns the URL the style was loaded from, or null when the style was given as an object (#7109) (by @bradymadden97 and @giswqs) Sample ter...

When to use search, structured, or autocomplete for forward geocoding, when reverse geocoding is the right call, and how to handle checkout address validation.

Switch from Google Maps, Mapbox, or MapTiler to Stadia Maps for privacy-first APIs and real human support, no lock-in.

How I added DuckDB and GeoParquet tile serving to Martin during Google Summer of Code 2026.

Vector map tiles look sharp at any resolution and can be restyled client-side for ultimate flexibility. Learn how to use our tiles with Leaflet.

Better relevance selection, cleaner names for major water bodies, centered lake labels, and straits are now in the water_name layer. Here's what changed and what to check in custom styles.

Stadia Maps sponsors local tech meetups, GIS, and location technology communities with up to $200 for venue, food, equipment, or speakers. Apply with no lengthy forms. Free trials for your attendees.

Hi again! During the last weeks Ive been working on a Python prototype of the medial axis that will later be implemented in Valhalla

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for FOSS4G 2026 general tracks

Discover campsites, wild camping spots, and resources around the world on Sitio.

A low-level Zarr API for Python, powered from Rust by zarrs.

Comparing MapTiler alternatives? Pricing, the routing gap, and caching options vs. Mapbox, Google Maps, and Stadia Maps.

OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) members will vote to elect a new board in October. Results will be announced during the 2026 Annual General Meeting, which will start on Saturday 17 October 2026,…

HeiGIT recently welcomed Prof. Dr. Wenwen Li and Prof. Dr. Song Gao for research visits focused on GeoAI, multimodal geospatial data, human mobility, and disaster response. Their visits strengthened international collaboration and opened new opportunities for joint research and academic exchange.

Comparing Mapbox alternatives? See real pricing, license tradeoffs, and privacy for Google Maps, MapTiler, Protomaps, Radar, and Stadia Maps in 2026.

06/08/2026-12/08/2026 [1] “OSM Vexillophile” for flag enthusiasts | © watmildon | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. Mapping SherbetS has proposed craft=meat_processing for small…

Learn how to integrate maps into your React Native mobile app with MapLibre React Native, an idiomatic wrapper for MapLibre Native.

Comparing Google Maps Platform alternatives? See real pricing, vendor lock-in tradeoffs, and privacy for Mapbox, MapTiler, Protomaps, Radar, and Stadia Maps in 2026.

This playlist contains recordings of presentations held during the FOSS4G Europe 2025 conference main days in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (16-18 July 2024). T...

30/07/2026-05/08/2026 [1] ‘Cool’ bicycle routing mode – estimated street-level thermal conditions at a resolution of roughly 25 metres | Victor Rotariu | map data © by OpenStreetM…

MapLibreGL released a major update with sixteen breaking changes, switching to ESM-only distribution, removing WebGL1 support, and updating TypeScript to ES2022 for better performance.

Make your maps pop with a 3D globe view and MapLibre GL JS.

23/07/2026-29/07/2026 [1] ‘OSM Skeleton’ reduces the heterogeneity of OpenStreetMap data | Les Libres Géographes | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. Mapping [1] Les Libres Géographes has sh…

10.10.0 The 10.10 release brings improvements throughout the library — from tile and vector rendering to sources, formats and interactions. The highlights are Text support in the WebGL vector rend...

How Shadowmap serves 3D sunlight simulation to 700,000+ monthly users — and powers Redfin's sunlight scores — with map tiles from Stadia Maps.

Quickly add a map to your website or app with the Static Maps API. If you're writing HTML, all you need is an img tag. No JS required!

MapLibreGL released a major update with sixteen breaking changes, switching to ESM-only distribution, removing WebGL1 support, and updating TypeScript to ES2022 for better performance.

16/07/2026-22/07/2026 [1] Navigation app focused on showing the exact location of building entrances and apartment number ranges | © Oleksandr Nazarenko | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. …

Affordable, private, world-class cartography for everyone from Stamen Design and Stadia Maps.

Following the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24, 2026, humanitarian organizations face a compromised operational landscape. With over 3,600 confirmed fatalities and tens of thousands missing, the immediate priority is delivering medical care, shelter, and psychosocial support to survivors. However, the physical destruction of entire urban blocks directly impairs the logistics of aid delivery. Deploying relief teams requires clarity on infrastructure reliability.

Explore every Stadia Maps style, from satellite imagery and terrain to watercolor and toner, live on an interactive map.

Learn how to use Stadia Maps basemap tiles in the Adobe After Effects GEOlayers 3 plugin.

At Explore Science 2026, young students experimented with computer vision for humanitarian mapping: an occasion to learn how AI models are trained and why human input remains essential for generating quality data for urban planning and disaster management.

Google, Mapbox, AWS, and ESRI charge 6-8x more to store a geocoding result than to query it. Here's why the caching tax exists, and how Stadia Maps avoids it.