Simon Willison’s Weblog

How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions (via) Kevin Schaul describes the Washington Post’s emerging open source GIS stack: OpenMapTiles, Maputnik, PMTiles and Maplibre-gl-js.

Posted 17th February 2023 at 6:45 pm

Recent articles

Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art - pelicans don't ride bikes!" - 10th August 2025
My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup - 9th August 2025
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers - 8th August 2025

maps 43 opensearch 3 openstreetmap 50 washington-post 9

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe