Rust-based WebGPU map renderer for Web, Mobile and Desktop
Rust-based WebGPU map renderer for Web, Mobile and Desktop
This project aims to develop a MapLibre Style Spec compliant renderer in Rust, using WebGPU for cross-platform support.
maplibre-rs is a portable and performant vector maps renderer. We aim to support web, mobile and desktop applications. This is achieved by the novel WebGPU specification. Plenty of native implementations are already implementing this specification. On the web, it is implemented by Firefox, Chrome and Safari. There are also standalone implementations that directly use Vulkan, OpenGL or Metal as a backend. Those backends allow maplibre-rs to run on mobile and desktop applications.
Rust is used as a Lingua franca on all platforms. This is made possible by WebAssembly, which allows us to use Rust for web development.
The goal of maplibre-rs is to render maps to visualize data. Right now the goal of maplibre-rs is not to replace existing vector map renderers like Google Maps, Apple Maps or MapLibre. The current implementation serves as a proof-of-concept of the used technology stack. It is unclear whether the high-performance requirements of rendering maps using vector graphics are achievable using the current stack.
Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-rs.git
Build and run it on a desktop
cargo run -p maplibre-demo
More information about running the demos on different platforms can be found here.
Install rustup because this is the recommended way of setting up Rust toolchains.
The toolchain will be automatically downloaded when building this project. See ./rust-toolchain.toml for more details about the toolchain.
This generates the documentation for this crate and opens the browser. This also includes the documentation of every dependency.
cargo doc --open
You can also view the up-to-date documentation here.
The maplibre-rs book features a high-level overview over the project from a user and development perspective.
We established an RFC process which must be used to describe major changes to maplibre-rs. Current RFCs can be browsed in the book.
The renderer of maplibre-rs is heavily based on the renderer of bevy. Bevy's renderer was forked into this project in order to have a solid and generic base.
No open issues yet, or sync has not completed.