[FOSS4G 2025 Auckland] maplibre-gl-terradraw - new drawing plugin for maplibre-gl-js

Jin Igarashi
Last updated on Sun, 13 Sep, 2026
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Event: FOSS4G 2025 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

This talk introduced maplibre-gl-terradraw, a new drawing plugin for MapLibre and a modern replacement for the unmaintained mapbox-gl-draw.

The plugin is built on Terra Draw and designed specifically for MapLibre, providing a pre-configured drawing feature with a single line of code:

map.addControl(new MaplibreTerradrawControl())

With this control, users get:

  • multiple drawing modes — point, line, polygon, rectangle, circle and more
  • selecting, deleting and downloading drawn features
  • a measure control to calculate the distance of lines and the area of polygons, and to query elevation from raster DEM sources

In the talk, I demonstrated the core functionalities and how easily drawing features can be integrated into MapLibre applications.

the abstract is available this page

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