maplibre-native

There are plenty non-web vector map renderers, but they generally provide a full GUI widget, not a simple "extent -> png" function. I don't think creating that would be too much work, though: Just set one of those libraries to render to a texture. Maplibre Native even seems to have a headless "render to PNG" backend: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/tree/main/platfo...

I don't fully understand your requirements, but does mapnik [0] do what you need? It's cross platform (Linux, OS X, Windows, and BSD) [1] and written in C++. There are bindings for Python/Node/C++. There is also maplibre-native [2] (which suports Android and iOS as well as Linux/Windows/macOS). Mapnik is usually used to pre-render raster tiles on a workstation or server. MapLibre Native is a native alternative to the MapLibre GL JS library (both forks of the no-longer open-source MapBox equivalents) for rendering vector tiles in the browser. [0]: https://mapnik.org/ [1]: https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/blob/master/INSTALL.md [2]: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native

The Bitcoin and Mastadon links don't seem to be working! (wiki not found) Would love to see this for Godot (https://github.com/godotengine/godot). Maybe Maplibre too (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native)!

The most accessible general-purpose map app for end users (Android and iOS) is written in C/C++. This is pretty high on the cool and useful scale: https://organicmaps.app/ Both map renderers Tangram-ES and Maplibre-GL - https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-es and - https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native are also written in C/C++. Finally, most routing software, such as OSRM or Valhalla are written in C/C++.

(Copied from another thread) There is active development on a Metal-supporting version. https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/tree/metal-su... is the branch and https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/issues?q=is%3... are associated issues.

Does there need to be? https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native

Metal support (coming soon) and MBTiles support (released AFAIK) are two things I know of, but I defer to the Releases page for specifics beyond that: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/releases.

Yes, we have a beta build of the SDK with Metal support (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/tree/metal-su..., https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/releases/tag/...). There are some minor issues we are addressing in the new release. Contributors and brave souls willing to try out the build are more than welcome :).

There is active development on a Metal-supporting version, yes! https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/tree/metal-su... is the branch and https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/issues?q=is%3... are associated issues.

Besides the JS version, the Maplibre project also maintains a FOSS fork of the matching mobile libraries at https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native