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This is interesting, is there a reference implementation that exists somewhere? Will there be a fork of tippecanoe that can encode these files or something different?

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We are finishing up the CLI for encoding tiles for public release: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec/pull/504 Likely a project like Planetiler will integrate this.

Still needs some work on the documentation side. There will be a separate announcement when it is done. We have a newsletter that we share on all the common social networks. https://maplibre.org/news/

Aside from getting the encoding side ready so tile providers can start to make MapLibre Tiles available, we are focussed on integrating the decoder in MapLibre GL JS (MapLibre for the web) and MapLibre Native (Android, iOS and other platforms). ETA is sometime near the end of 2025.

I work as a maintainer for MapLibre, let me know if you have any other questions about the project!

Thanks for your work! Out of curiosity, do you know why this project chose to go with Java as it's core? Great to see you're also supporting TS + Rust out of the gate

Thank you for the link to the git repo, this looks great. Thank you for your work. MapLibre is a library I use all the time and while MVT isn't something I have any complaints about this will still be a big upgrade.

"As of January 2025, implementation has started for MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native." [1]

Github shows java, js, rust, and typescript folders, though I didn't poke any further beyond literally just looking at the folder names. [2]

[1] https://maplibre.org/roadmap/maplibre-tiles/

[2] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec

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