Open data for your map

GeoJSON

A geojson source takes a URL or an inline GeoJSON object (from another domain only with CORS headers) and can cluster points; for large files, tile them with tippecanoe instead.

Vector tiles (MVT)

A vector source with a tile URL template or a TileJSON url; Mapbox Vector Tile is the default encoding, and tile servers such as Martin serve it.

MapLibre Tiles (MLT)

A vector source with encoding "mlt", supported since MapLibre GL JS 5.12.0, MapLibre Native Android 12.1.0, and MapLibre Native iOS 6.20.0; Planetiler writes MLT with --tile-format=mlt.

Raster tiles

A raster source with XYZ or TMS tile URLs, a TileJSON url, or a WMS GetMap URL that uses the {bbox-epsg-3857} placeholder.

Terrarium elevation tiles

A raster-dem source with encoding "terrarium" feeds hillshade layers and 3D terrain, as used by Mapterhorn and AWS Terrain Tiles.

Mapbox Terrain-RGB elevation tiles

A raster-dem source with encoding "mapbox" (the default); MapLibre GL JS 3.4.0 and later also decode custom RGB encodings from redFactor, greenFactor, blueFactor, and baseShift.

Image

An image source places a single image, such as a scanned map or a radar frame, on the map by its four corner coordinates.

Video

A video source places a video by its four corner coordinates, with URLs in several formats for browser support; MapLibre GL JS supports it, MapLibre Native does not yet.

PMTiles

In MapLibre GL JS, the pmtiles package registers a pmtiles:// protocol with addProtocol for vector, raster, and raster-dem sources; MapLibre Native reads pmtiles:// URLs itself since Android 11.8.0 and iOS 6.10.0.

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG)

maplibre-cog-protocol adds a cog:// protocol for raster sources (imagery, or single-band data with color ramps) and elevation as hillshading or 3D terrain; the COG must be in Web Mercator, which gdalwarp -of COG -co TILING_SCHEME=GoogleMapsCompatible produces from any GeoTIFF.

Zarr

CarbonPlan's zarr-layer draws Zarr v2 and v3 stores, such as climate model output, as a custom layer on the GPU, reprojecting on the fly.

LiDAR point clouds (LAS, LAZ, COPC)

maplibre-gl-lidar loads LAS and LAZ files and streams COPC and EPT point clouds, drawing them with deck.gl on the map.

FlatGeobuf

The maintained flatgeobuf JavaScript library streams features, optionally only those in a bounding box over HTTP range requests, into a geojson source, as its official MapLibre example shows; tippecanoe also reads FlatGeobuf to make tiles.

GeoParquet

No MapLibre source reads it, so convert it with Planetiler or GDAL (GeoParquet 1.0 since GDAL 3.8) to PMTiles or GeoJSON; the young maplibre-gl-vector plugin can also load it in the browser through DuckDB-WASM.

Shapefile

Planetiler reads shapefiles directly; otherwise convert with GDAL's ogr2ogr to GeoJSON or FlatGeobuf and tile it with tippecanoe to PMTiles.

GeoPackage

Planetiler reads GeoPackage directly; otherwise convert with GDAL's ogr2ogr to GeoJSON or FlatGeobuf and tile it with tippecanoe to PMTiles.

OpenStreetMap PBF

Planetiler turns a planet file or an extract into PMTiles or MBTiles vector tiles, with profiles for the OpenMapTiles, Protomaps Basemaps, and Shortbread schemas.

MBTiles

MBTiles is a SQLite file, so on the web serve it with a tile server such as Martin or TileServer GL, or turn it into PMTiles with pmtiles convert; MapLibre Native can read a local MBTiles file.

GTFS

GDAL's GTFS driver (3.7 and later) reads a feed's zip, including stops, trips, and shape geometries, and ogr2ogr writes them as GeoJSON for a geojson source.