Creating and maintaining map styles for MapLibre can be complex and often involves multiple tools and workflows.

Kartore is a project centered around a style editor for MapLibre, designed to improve the experience of creating and managing map styles.

In this talk, I will present the motivation behind developing Kartore as an independent project, including observations from existing workflows and considerations for making styling more streamlined and manageable.

The session will introduce the design and architecture of the editor, followed by a demonstration of its current capabilities, including practical workflows for style editing and managing style configurations effectively.

This talk is aimed at developers and cartographers working with MapLibre who are interested in improving their styling workflows.

In addition, I will discuss ongoing and planned extensions, such as sprite and glyph generation, and how these features aim to support a broader range of cartographic workflows.

The project is being developed openly, with its implementation available on GitHub ( https://github.com/Kartore ), and aims to contribute to the broader open geospatial community.

Finally, I will share lessons learned from building a tool in the open geospatial ecosystem and outline future directions.