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A nice round-up of free (as in beer) base-map tile services you can use in your projects without authentication, signing up or creating authentication tokens.

maplibre-gl-shader-layer is a JavaScript library for creating custom tiled layers for MaplibreGL with WebGL and shader code. It simplifies WebGL development by leveraging ThreeJS under the hood and provides a framework for rendering complex data visualisations directly on maps with per-tile customisation. Its sweet spot is continuous data covering large geographic areas, wher...

Apple has announced rules for advertisements on Apple Maps, to be introduced later this summer in the US and Canada. Some businesses will be prohibited from advertising on Apple Maps, while others will be vetted.

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch:

Notably, it prohibits the broad category of home services businesses, like plumbing, electrical, locksmith, HVAC, pest contro...

Compiled by Matt Forrest, this year’s edition features almost 2,500 companies and organisations from 121 countries, all neatly categorised and searchable by organisation size, founding year and funding received. If you’re looking for a job in geospatial, start your search here.

GeoViz is a new JavaScript library by Nicolas Lambert to produce maps on the web. It comes with a wide range of resizable markers and symbols, contour lines, geometry simplifications, map projections, layout marks (yeah, you can have that north arrow), and so much more. Buil...