--- title: Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector... description: MapLibre Tile (MLT) is a new vector tile format designed as a modern successor to Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). Built from the ground up for modern graphics APIs,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-maplibre-tile-a-modern-and-efficient-vector-tile-format-q2v2jmeck twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format | daily.dev og:description: MapLibre Tile (MLT) is a new vector tile format designed as a modern successor to Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). Built from the ground up for modern graphics APIs,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-maplibre-tile-a-modern-and-efficient-vector-tile-format-q2v2jmeck og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/q2v2jmECk.png og:image:alt: Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MapLibre Tile (MLT) is a new vector tile format designed as a modern successor to Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). Built from the ground up for modern graphics APIs, MLT enables high-performance processing and rendering of planet-scale 2D and 2.5D basemaps while addressing challenges of growing geospatial data volumes. The format is now supported in MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native, with implementations available through various tools and services. MLT offers feature parity with MVT while providing improved performance and efficiency for next-generation geospatial applications. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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