OpenLayers vs MapTiler: What are the differences?

What is OpenLayers? A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

What is MapTiler? The tool has been designed for producing seamless maps and aerial photo layers covering whole countries. It is a software for map tile rendering. It has been designed for producing seamless maps and aerial photo layers covering whole countries. The rendering is fast and efficient, and it can fully utilize multiple CPUs to 100%.

OpenLayers and MapTiler can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.

Some of the features offered by OpenLayers are:

• Tiled Layers - Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and any other XYZ source you can find. OGC mapping services and untiled layers also supported.
• Fast & Mobile Ready - Mobile support out of the box. Build lightweight custom profiles with just the components you need.
• Vector Layers - Render vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML, GML, and a growing number of other formats.

On the other hand, MapTiler provides the following key features:

• Satellite imagery
• Drones
• Precision agriculture.

OpenLayers is an open source tool with 5.4K GitHub stars and 2.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenLayers's open source repository on GitHub.