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MapTiler Engine Changelog

What's new in MapTiler Engine 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 Engine 13.1 (Nov 29, 2023)

  • This release fixes a bug related to the rendering of vector tiles.

New in MapTiler Engine 13.0 (Nov 22, 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 Engine 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 Engine 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 Engine 12.0 (Dec 7, 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 Engine 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 Engine 11.2.1 (Sep 21, 2021)

  • Fixed activation issue with license keys on Linux

New in MapTiler Engine 11.2 (Jun 17, 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 Engine 10.3 (Dec 18, 2020)

  • 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 Engine 10.2 (Nov 22, 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 Engine 10.1 (Nov 22, 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 Engine 10.0 (May 10, 2019)

  • 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 Engine 9.1 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • MapTiler Desktop with a new logo and color scheme

New in MapTiler Engine 9.0 (Dec 6, 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
  • 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.
  • Multiple MapTiler application can be used to preview different MBTiles
  • Several other small improvements and bug fixes

New in MapTiler Engine 8.0-0 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • 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 Engine 7.2-0 (Dec 8, 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 Engine 7.1-0 (Dec 8, 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 Engine 7.0 (Jul 14, 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 Engine 0.6.4 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Merge 2 maps into 1 or update existing maps in MBTiles format.
  • Open maps in any coordinate system in GIS software thanks to WMTS.
  • 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 Engine 0.6.3.1 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Uploading map tiles to new Amazon S3 buckets fixed (cloudpush utility).

New in MapTiler Engine 0.6.3 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Viewers for Hybrid tile format generated.
  • Improved Georeferencer: visual assigning of geolocation.
  • WebP as new tile format.
  • Keyboard shortcuts in GUI.
  • Fixed generating KML.
  • Utility nearblack-vrt on command line.
  • Rewritten CloudPush CLI.
  • Reset default values buttons in dialogs.
  • Compression level settings for Tile Formats (JPEG, PNG).
  • New overviews resampling method: Nearest neighbor.
  • Added - tiling_centered option for Advanced tiles.
  • Bug fixes and GUI improvements.

New in MapTiler Engine 0.6.2 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Zoomable preview for all supported input files (MrSID, ECW, GeoTIFF,..).
  • OpenLayers3 HTML viewer generated for produced tiles.
  • Help -> "Submit a report" for easy detailed bug reports.
  • Hybrid format for mercator tiles in the GUI.
  • Cutline in different coordinate system supported.
  • Tiling resolution to fit output or to fit input added.
  • Updating existing large MBTiles with merge_mbtiles utility.
  • Save project / load project command-line compatible.
  • Rendering empty tiles into directory with -no_sparse.

New in MapTiler Engine 0.6.1 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • GeoPDF performance improved (PDFium).
  • JPEG2000 performance improved (Kakadu).
  • Cutline from a shapefile.
  • Transformation for GCPs selectable: affine, polynomial, tps.
  • GCPs assignable on command line.
  • Several small fixes on the 0.6 release.
  • Faster rendering for sparse tilesets.
  • Sparse MBTiles (without empty tiles) with advanced option or -sparse.

New in MapTiler Engine 0.6 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Automatic OGC WMTS service - for any hosting including Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage or your existing web server. Open your maps in ArcGIS or QGIS directly after upload.
  • Mobile Apps showing GPS position on the rendered map tiles.
  • Garmin GPS hardware devices supported - Custom Maps via KML.
  • Visual georeferencing with satellite map layer possible.
  • Advanced settings of zoom levels in the user interface of MapTiler Pro with different files at different zoom levels.
  • New sample viewers for the tiles (OpenLayers, OL3, MapBox JS, ArcGIS API for JavaScript).
  • D globe viewers with WebGL for the tiles (WebGLEarth, OL3Cesium).
  • Windows binaries with SSL signature.

New in MapTiler Engine 0.5.5 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • EPSG.io integration - easier search for coordinate systems.
  • Amazon S3 + Google Cloud Storage fast uploader (cloudpush).
  • Amazon S3 regions in Settings.
  • MBTiles offline viewer on double click.
  • Watermark as Advanced option in MapTiler Pro.
  • Cutline for GeoPDF via checkbox.
  • Faster application of SRS to large number of files.
  • Drag&drop a folder with input files possible.
  • Improved Google Earth profile output.
  • Fixed bugs (trial extension, Unicode filenames, missing resampling, empty output directory, etc)

New in MapTiler Engine 0.5.4 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • GeoPDF + PDF files can be rendered into map tiles.
  • Automatic cutline loading for GeoPDFs.
  • Cutline editable in visual georeferencer
  • Settings dialog (web proxy, temp folder,..) and a license dialog.
  • Auto-update for Pro customers.
  • New easy-to-use version of TileServer-PHP.
  • OGC WMTS (ArcGIS compatible) from Amazon S3 or a custom server out of the box.
  • SSL upload to Amazon S3 switched certificates because of Heartbleed Bug.
  • D visualization on virtual globes with WebGL.
  • Opening ArcGIS Web Mercator georeferenced raster files (WKT).
  • Improved MBTiles file output for dateline crossing maps.
  • MBTiles offline viewer improved.
  • Customer Experience Improvement Program.
  • Bug fixes and upgrade of the GDAL library and GUI.

New in MapTiler Engine 0.5.3 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Retina / HighDPI tiles supported.
  • Improved output to PNG8 (better defaults for color quantisation).
  • Support for maps crossing the international dateline (+ or - 180 degrees longitude).
  • Background color of base maps selectable in user interface under Advanced options.
  • Google Earth API web viewer generated for KML.
  • Checking for updates is automated and installation of new versions simplified.
  • Better handling of thousands of input files in graphical user interface.
  • Several bug fixes, improved stability.