January 13, 2026
Rivers of Europe and Entre Ríos rendered directly in Ruby
Today marks a major milestone for libgd-gis : we crossed from “experimental map renderer” into a real GIS-grade drawing engine.
Using nothing but Ruby + libgd , we are now able to render continent-scale river networks , provincial hydrology , and complex GeoJSON layers with proper classification, styling, and compositing — no QGIS, no Mapbox, no JavaScript.
Let’s look at what changed.
👉 Read the full article:
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/01/13/libgd-gis-moves-into-serious-cartography-territory/
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