# MapLibre Tile

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/maplibre-tile-format/

7 people recommended MapLibre Tile in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 1 thread. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

7 of the 7 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format”.

**Verdict:** Newer open vector tile format that cuts archive size about 10% at default settings, built on lessons from years of tile use.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Smaller archives than the older format (2 comments in the sample): "In my testing I’ve seen ~10% reduction in overall OpenMapTiles archive size with default settings" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765969)) "So roughly a ~10% compression improvement, neat!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764578))

## What people warn about

- Default styles lack some needed languages (1 comment in the sample): "Their default styles did not support the languages we needed out of the box" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766224))

## What people recommend instead

- [PMTiles](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pmtiles/): 11 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "MapLibre Tile", https://hackerapproved.com/p/maplibre-tile-format/ (7 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.