Making maps with Ultra
2026-08-29 , Corse
Language: English

This talk will introduce Ultra, an alternative high-performance front-end to overpass, qlever, sophox, and more powered by MapLibre GL JS. It will cover the basics of how Ultra works: choosing a backend query service and authoring your query as well as how to style the query results using MapLibre.


Talk keywords:

Overpass,QLever,MapLibre,Sophox,cartography

See also: Ultra

Daniel Schep is a professional software engineer at onX maps and an amateur cartographer. At his day job he builds internal tooling for working with OpenStreetMap data. In his free time he has created Ultra, OpenTrailStash, and a few other open-source OSM-based projects and maps (see trailstash.net)