Today I am super excited to announce Idly-Gl! It is an opensource Mapbox GL plugin which renders OpenStreetMap data.
What is Idly-Gl?
Idly-Gl is a small plugin which reads data from Openstreetmapâs API and renders it on any Mapbox GL map. Click here for a demo.
What is IDLY đ?
Idly is an Indian rice cake đ. I picked this name as it can be the little brother of iD editor.
Why did you create it?
I work with a lot of Mapbox-gl maps and I am very impressed with their speed and portability. I have also worked with iD editor and it has impressed me with the way it handles OSM data. The only problem is that these two donât talk to each other well. To bridge the gap, we would have a button to open it in iD. This works well when you have to make an edit, but if a user just wants to inspect/visualize OSM data the only option is to open the OSM website.
What does it do?
- đ It renders live osm data on a mapbox-gl map, which makes it blazingly fast.