Hello, I’m Yasunori Kirimoto of MapLibre User Group Japan (MUG-JP). In this article, we will introduce the main activities of MUG-JP in 2024.

About MapLibre User Group Japan (MUG-JP)

Please see this article for information about MUG-JP activities up to last year.

Summary of activities in 2024

Official website released

https://mug-jp.org

Until last year, we operated a website on the Notion page, but this year, we acquired a domain and built our own website. On the new website, we are publishing a "MUG-JP Contributors Map" that lists the presenters and management members who have contributed to MUG-JP so far.

Online meetup

We held an online meetup again this year to share trends and technologies related to MapLibre, FOSS4G, and web maps. This was the second time we held the meetup, and we were able to share a variety of knowledge by having more people participate remotely.

MapLibre Meetup Japan #02

• Date: April 22, 2024

• Participants: 110

• MapLibreとAmazon Location Service / Yasunori Kirimoto

• Raster Tile Server Created with MapLibre Native / Kanahiro Iguchi

• How I Became Friends with Point Cloud Data Using FOSS4G / Yohei Shiwaku(shi-works)

• Visualizing Shinjuku Dungeon / Satoshi Komatsu

Offline Meetup

We held our first offline meetup in Tokyo. We have considered this goal since the start of MUG-JP, and it has finally come to fruition.

Another big thing that happened at this meetup was that we negotiated with MapLibre and received support (venue and novelty expenses) as a sponsor.

To continue and expand community activities in each country in the future, it was very important to receive support from the main body. The fact that the claim processing using Open Collective was smooth and that overseas remittance was easy was also a new discovery.

https://bsky.app/profile/nyurik.bsky.social/post/3ldgnsr3bnk26

MapLibre Meetup Japan # 03 @ Tokyo

• Date: November 8, 2024

• Participants: 39

• State of Open Source Web Mapping Libraries / Yasunori Kirimoto

• Prototype of an offline map system using Raspberry Pi and MapLibre GL JS / Yohei Shiwaku

• Multilingual support for Maputnik and smooth communication on GitHub / Keita Kobayashi

• VSCode extension for MapLibre turns VSCode into a map style editor / Kanahiro Iguchi

• Trying out the source code for MapLibre Native for iOS / Haruki Inoue

• Creating various terrains that can be used with MapLibre / Taro Matsuzawa

• Writing a book on intermediate MapLibre GL JS / Asahina

• Using shaders to express dynamic raster tiles in MapLibre / Satoshi Komatsu

At this offline event, we filmed a video for the first time. Please take a look.

Digest video of "MapLibre Meetup Japan # 03 @ Tokyo"

Session video of "State of Open Source Web Mapping Libraries / Yasunori Kirimoto"

Other activities

As for other activities, we also gave a talk at related events.

• Speaker at "FOSS4G 2024 Japan"

Summary

We looked back on the MapLibre User Group Japan activities in 2024.

We hope that this article has sparked some interest in MUG-JP. Please try using MapLibre products for yourself. We also welcome you to participate in our events.

MUG-JP is a community that works at its own pace, but we will continue our activities relaxedly. We are thinking of holding events online and offline again next year, so if you would like to give a presentation, please get in touch.

Official Web Site
https://mug-jp.org

GitHub
https://github.com/mug-jp

dev.to
https://dev.to/mug-jp

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