GeoLibre now works without the internet

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GeoLibre now works without the internet!

The newest addition lets you extract your own basemap out of the global Protomaps planet build and take it with you. Open Project > Offline Basemap and you can:

• Extract any area: draw a bounding box on the map (or use the current view), pick a zoom range, and GeoLibre copies just those tiles out of the 127 GB remote archive using HTTP range requests.
• Get a real basemap: the extracted archive is styled with the Protomaps basemap schema with five flavors (light, dark, white, grayscale, black).
• Stay offline for real: the fonts and icons are bundled with the app, so your basemap renders fully with no network connection at all.
• Keep a library: saved basemaps live in a panel where you can rename them, switch flavors on the fly, re-apply them later, or open any local .pmtiles file straight from disk.
• Point at any archive: paste any .pmtiles URL into the Basemap Picker or the New Project dialog and style it as a basemap on the spot.

The result is a portable .pmtiles file: one self-contained file that holds your study area and travels with you. Whether you are heading into the field with no signal, working from a plane, running a workshop on a locked-down network, or just tired of waiting on tile servers, your basemap is now a file you own.

Try it out

• Launch GeoLibre Web: https://web.geolibre.app
• GitHub: https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre
• Documentation: https://geolibre.app

Big thanks to the Protomaps project for the PMTiles format, the open basemap schema, and the daily planet builds that make this possible.

#GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #PMTiles #Protomaps #MapLibre #GeoLibre

GeoLibre-offline-basemap.mp4