protomaps.js

A vector map renderer for the web.

This project is a complete web map renderer - including quality label layout, pattern fills, and icons - in as simple as possible of an implementation. It's an alternative to renderers like Mapbox GL JS in a fraction of the size.

Features

• Render static maps to Canvas elements or interactive maps with Leaflet integration
• Supports variable web fonts with multiple weights and italics in a single font file
• Can read normal Z/X/Y tile URLs or offline, S3-hosted tile archives in PMTiles format
• Full out-of-the-box support for right-to-left and Indic/Brahmic writing systems
• Configurable via plain JavaScript
• Extensible API for defining your own symbolizers

See the docs on what protomaps.js is, what protomaps.js is not

Demos

• Simple Leaflet demo
• Multi-language customization
• Satellite + labels demo
• GeoJSON between basemap and labels demo
• JSON style
• Map inset
• PostGIS
• Custom fonts

How to use

<script src="https://unpkg.com/protomaps@latest/dist/protomaps.min.js"></script>
<script>
    const map = L.map('map')
    var layer = protomaps.leafletLayer({url:'FILE.pmtiles OR ENDPOINT/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf'})
    layer.addTo(map)
</script>

Exports of OpenStreetMap data in PMTiles format can be obtained from https://protomaps.com/bundles.

Benchmarking

• Go into the benchmarks folder and run npm install and npm run start.
• If you want to add benchmarks, take a look at the benchmarks/benchs/benchmarks.ts file

Benchmarking the felt style

• Felt benchmarking is done in the map-benchmarks private repo. That compares the last @feltmaps/protomaps published package against the benchmarking-base branch of this repo

Project Status

The design is still evolving rapidly, so do not expect any kind of stable internal or external-facing API between minor versions. But please do report bugs and discuss requirements in the Issues.

See Also

• KothicJS
• Tangram