What's new in MapTiler 13.2
Feb 27, 2024
- Command line upload to MapTiler Cloud - Upload tilesets directly to MapTiler Cloud from both the GUI and command line (CLI).
- Free Online Hosting and Styling in MapTiler Cloud - Use your MapTiler Cloud account to host your tiles and create beautifully styled maps.
- New Feedback Form - We've made it easier to get in touch with us through product feedback or technical support.
- Various minor enhancements to improve the overall user experience.
New in MapTiler 13.1 (Nov 29, 2023)
- This release fixes a bug related to the rendering of vector tiles.
New in MapTiler 13.0 (Nov 25, 2023)
- Faster tile rendering - The new algorithm processes your data in less time.
- New rendering types - Each plan now has a tailored rendering type.
- Filter the files you process - Easily filter files by filename or attribute such as their coordinate system.
- Improved responsiveness - Engine will never freeze when opening a large number of files.
- Effortless updates - One click to install new versions.
- Enhanced dialog text - It is now possible to copy text from all dialogs.
- Various minor enhancements to improve the overall user experience.
New in MapTiler 12.2 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Custom preactivated binary - New option for MapTiler Engine distribution.
- Various enhancements to the user interface.
- Single-band image scale settings in the desktop app - The desktop app allows to adjust the band scale for single-band images with non-8-bit data types.
- Custom basemap improvement - Adding a new custom basemap is now more convenient.
New in MapTiler 12.1 (May 11, 2023)
- Custom watermark image and text
- Support for on-premise floating licenses
- License Server for on-prem floating licenses
- Estimated remaining time and elapsed time during rendering
- Other small user experience improvements and bug fixes
New in MapTiler 12.0 (Oct 26, 2022)
- MapTiler Desktop becomes MapTiler Engine, with flexible plans and more affordable prices
- MapTiler Engine PRO plan available directly from the web
- Add custom watermarks to your output
- Optimized PNG tiles are the new default output format
- Updated sample HTML viewers with MapTiler basemaps generated with your output
- Pick a color from the input file for transparency
- Other small user experience improvements
New in MapTiler 11.3 (Dec 22, 2021)
- Change basemap for live input preview or final map
- Improved vector map inspect mode
- New Global settings with advanced rendering options - Resampling, Folder Tiling Scheme, Sparse output, Retina scale, Directories, …
- Improved file-based zooms settings, drag&drop, multiple file edits
- Other small user experience improvements
- Fixed AutoUpdate links for PRO binaries
New in MapTiler 11.2.1 (Sep 23, 2021)
- Fixed activation issue with license keys on Linux
New in MapTiler 11.2 (Jun 18, 2021)
- Estimates for output before rendering
- Generate Google Earth KML, or Garmin-like GPS maps
- Nice and same visual of finished uploaded map to Cloud (MapTiler, S3, Google, Azure, etc)
- Drag&Drop for GeoPackage or MBTiles to preview the map directly
- More customized icons for supported files by MapTiler Desktop on each OS
- Upload to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure [PLUS]
- Fixed tiling vector geometries outside bounds for Mercator coordinates
- Fixed visual georeferencer tool for GeoPDF
- Other small fixes and improvements
New in MapTiler 11 (Feb 28, 2021)
- New User Interface for vector tiles generator
- Live preview of input raster sources
- Export in other output coordinates - Geodetic, National, Pixels-raster, Custom
- Upload to MapTiler Cloud
- Signed and notarized binary on macOS
- AppImage container for Linux (DEB / RPM links on our web)
- Better work with multiple files [Pro]
- Set manual scales for non-8bit images, render Float images [Plus/Pro]
- New GUI with updated visual design
- Improved UX for Output Settings - change output tiles format, zoom levels, file-based zooms
- Improved generated GeoPackage for vectors and rasters, supported in MapTiler Cloud
- Fixed Google Maps in Visual georeferencing tool
- Fixed generated tiles from vectors covering the whole world (Natural Earth Data)
- Fixed opening GeoPDF
New in MapTiler 10.3 (Dec 12, 2019)
- GDAL with improved PDF library on Windows / macOS
- New custom Tiling preset - Netherlands/New RD, EPSG:28992
- Updated custom Tiling preset S-JTSK for Czechia EPSG:5514
- Changed arguments for custom Tiling presets [Pro]
- Fixed issues with licensing library
- Small improvements in the graphic interface
New in MapTiler 10.2 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Upload advanced tiles with a custom grid as GeoPackage into MapTiler Cloud
- Improved HiDPI tiles with a custom grid as GeoPackage
- Improved rendering of advanced raster files (ECW, JP2)
- New custom tiling grid - Lambert 93 for France
- Upload Web Mercator MBTiles into our new MapTiler Mobile application
- New Linux distributions - Debian 10, Fedora 30
- Improved license verification system, mostly on Windows 10
- Several other small improvements and bug fixes
New in MapTiler 10.1 (Oct 2, 2019)
- MapTiler Cloud integration - upload directly MBTiles from the application after rendering
- Updated GDAL to 2.4.1 on macOS, Windows
- Updated OpenLayers to v5.3.0 in generated HTML sample viewers
- Switch to a darker background for File preview
- Graphical interface improved for dark system themes
- Fixed generated HTML viewers for TMS tiling scheme and Raster non-georeferenced images
- Several other small improvements and bug fixes
New in MapTiler 10.0 (Dec 19, 2018)
- Vector tiles rendering (in PBF format)
- Fast upload of tiles to Azure Blob storage, next to Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
- New Amazon S3 regions with Version4 authorization (US East Ohio, Canada, Asia Pacific, China, EU)
- Updated PROJ.4 and GDAL library (macOS, Windows)
- New Linux distribution versions - Ubuntu 18.10, Fedora 29
- Fixed issues with license activation on Linux and newer Windows
- Dropped support of Windows XP
- Several other small improvements and bug fixes
New in MapTiler 9.1 (Dec 19, 2018)
- MapTiler Desktop with a new logo and color scheme
New in MapTiler 9.0 (Dec 19, 2018)
- Color corrections with automatic correction based on the reference image
- Updated HTML viewers for new OpenLayers 4 and Leaflet 1.0
- ZYX tiling scheme output in the folder (used mostly by Japanese map providers)
- RPM/DEB packages for new Linux distribution releases, for example: Debian 9 and Testing, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Fedora 28
- Multiple MapTiler application can be used to preview different MBTiles
- Several other small improvements and bug fixes
- New custom tile grids for Advanced tiles:
- S-JTSK/Krovak, used in Czechia, Slovakia
- Yandex maps, used in Russia
- NZGD2000, used in New Zealand
- OSGB 1936 (Ordnance Survey) used in the United Kingdom
- CH1903 used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- Standard global tilegrid with a selected Coordinate system.
New in MapTiler 8.0 (May 3, 2018)
- Export tiles in OGC GeoPackage
- Autoscale 16 or 32 bit integer input bands into 8bit
- Global projected cutline for more input files [Pro]
- Pick a color from the source file for transparency
- QuadKey tiling scheme output in the folder (known from Microsoft Bing maps)
- Online preview of bounding box for the input file
- Updated library for coordinate systems and projections (PROJ 4.9.2)
- Remember Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage credentials in GUI
New in MapTiler 7.2 (Dec 2, 2016)
- New GeoEditor mobile and tablet app
- Offline tiles on mobile devices via Google Drive instead of Dropbox
- Corners location for easier indoor / floor maps
- Geodetic tiles preset under Custom tiles
- Simple resume mode (continue rendering of stopped process) [Pro]
- Baidu maps native tiles on the output supported
- Selectable bands (reorder or ignore bands) and graphically CLI
New in MapTiler 7.1 (Nov 16, 2016)
- Vector tile upload from MBTiles to S3 / Google Cloud Storage directly from MapTiler or cloudpush command-line utility
- Preview MBTiles with vector or raster maps with a double-click on your desktop, even offline
- Help menu contains now online tutorials, manual and link to support channels
- Prevent deleting of unfinished tilesets (GUI dialog or -keep_unfinished argument) [Pro]
- Several other small improvements and bug fixes
New in MapTiler 7.0 (Sep 7, 2016)
- Auto-save of the georeference. When a file is reopened, previous georeference is loaded
- Visual preview of overlay in the Georeferencer - before tile rendering!
- Transformations available (scaled, similarity, affine, polynomial, TPS)
- Map portal for your customers with one click, hosted on Amazon or Google cloud
- Retina/HighDPI with variable scale on all profiles including raster
- Background map added to MBTiles preview
- Icons for easy upload to mobile and cloud hosting
- Legend, including image, stored in metadata of generated MBTiles maps
- HTTPS hosting on Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
- Now unavailable MapQuest maps were replaced with our own base maps
New in MapTiler 0.6.4 (Jul 12, 2016)
- Merge 2 maps into 1 or update existing maps in MBTiles format [Pro]
- Open maps in any coordinate system in GIS software thanks to WMTS (via metadata.json and http://wmts.maptiler.com/)
- Upload to Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage with progress bar
- Support of transparency in input files with color palette
- Deep zoom in Google Maps without automatic tilt
- Improved accuracy of location in GeoPDF
- Option to ignore alpha channel in input files
- Newly rendered MBTiles prepared for faster merging
- Automatic deactivation on virtual machines with system variable
- Bug fixes and GUI improvements
New in MapTiler 0.5.5 (Dec 18, 2014)
- OGC WMTS support on Amazon S3 or TileServer-PHP
- Settings dialog and license dialog
- Improved MBTiles file output
- Cutline specification in the visual georeferencing
- Opening ArcGIS Web Mercator files (WKT)
- Bug fixes and upgrade of the GUI
New in MapTiler 0.5.3 (Mar 4, 2014)
- Improved Mac OS X 10.9 support (open file dialogs)
- Support for maps crossing the international dateline (+ or - 180 degrees longitude)
- Background colour of base maps selectable in user interface under Advanced options
- Google Earth API web viewer generated for KML
- Improved output to PNG8 (better defaults for colour quantisation)
- Retina / HighDPI tiles supported [Pro]
- Checking for updates is automated and installation of new versions simplified [Start for Windows/Linux]
- Graphical User Interface for Linux operating system
- Better handling of thousands of input files in graphical user interface [Pro]
- Several bug fixes, improved stability
New in MapTiler 0.5.0 (Nov 25, 2013)
- Amazon S3 cloud hosting of maps with one click.
- OGC WMTS TileServer map hosting on any PHP webserver, compatible with ArcGIS, QGIS, UDig, etc.
- Completely new user interface supporting Retina on Mac.
- MBTiles viewer working even offline part of the app.
- KML SuperOverlay improvements: custom zoom levels, resampling, ClampToSeaFloor.
- Improved quality of the tiles and new rendering optimizations.
- Bug fixes and various additional improvements (resampling method, georeference dialog, splash screen, repeated rendering, drag&drop).
New in MapTiler 0.4.2 (Aug 10, 2013)
- Zoom levels settings in the MapTiler Start. Improved interface, bug fixes, enhanced MBTiles metadata.
New in MapTiler 0.4.1 (Jul 20, 2013)
- Leaflet viewer, MBTiles metadata, and various bug fixes
New in MapTiler 0.4 (Jun 13, 2013)
- MBTiles file format directly supported. Rendering progress bar improved.
New in MapTiler 0.3.2 (Jun 3, 2013)
- Improvements of the user interface, drag&drop of the input files, coordinate system (SRS) as a separate dialog and several small bug fixes.
New in MapTiler 0.3.1 (Apr 13, 2013)
- Optional TMS tile addressing to ensure back compatibility with older MapTiler and existing apps. ECW and MRSID formats loading fixed. Small UI improvements and additional bug fixes.