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TileMill is a project originally created by the awesome technologists at Mapbox. Unfortunately for TileMill users, several years ago, Mapbox decided to head in a different direction with their products/services. Essentially, they planned to move to a model where customers use their map rendering engine as a service and they host the rendered map data. In addition, TileMill only renders raster maps and Mapbox wanted to change their rendering engine to render vector maps which has the pro of creating much smaller map data and the con of making it more difficult to keep any proprietary source map data secret. So, Mapbox is an excellent solution for many people but not for everyone. There are still a small number of us out there that want to keep tighter control on our map data or that just want to have much more control over the rendering process, and who are willing to deal with the very large map data sets that are created.
So, around 2012 or 2013, Mapbox moved the GitHub TileMill project from the mapbox organization to a new opensource tilemill-project organization with the intention of handing off maintenance of TileMill to the users of the tool. TileMill then sat fairly idle with occasional help coming from Mapbox when there were questions. In 2019, we decided that we should work to get TileMill updated and actively maintained once again for the small community for whom it is a good fit. We decided to start by merging a fork from florinf called TileOven back in to TileMill since Florian had kept his fork more up to date than any other that we found. In the TileOven fork, it only focused on Linux and simplified it by dropping support for standalone apps for various platforms (only runs within a browser). We hope to possibly re-instate the standalone apps for various platforms in the future but for now will stick with running it in a browser.