GeoLibre 0.5.0 Adds a Gaussian Splatting Layer to Its Open-Source Desktop GIS

Michael Rubloff

Michael Rubloff

Michael is the Founder and Managing Editor of Radiancefields.com

GeoLibre

GeoLibre 0.5.0 has added Gaussian splatting as a first class layer type alongside the spatial formats a GIS is expected to handle. In GeoLibre a splat scene is now something you load next to a Flatgeobuf vector, a PMTiles archive, a Zarr cube, a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, an MBTiles set, an ArcGIS service, a LiDAR point cloud, and KMZ vectors.

GeoLibre is a lightweight, cloud native desktop GIS built by Qiusheng Wu’s opengeos organization on Tauri v2, React, TypeScript, and MapLibre GL JS, with deck.gl layers underneath and DuckDB Spatial broadening local vector support in this release. The 0.5.0 layer controls, including the Gaussian splatting layer, are wired through the project’s maplibre-gl-components package, updated to 0.17.3 here, which suggests the splat support is reusable across MapLibre tools built on the same components rather than locked inside the desktop app.

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