- MapBox supports only one projection, spherical Mercator or pseudo Mercator (EPSG:3857) which is the de-facto standard for maps on the web. OpenLayers supports many.
- OpenLayers has better support for OGC standards such as WMS and WFS. MapBox has better support for vector tiles and fast rendering using webgl.
- OpenLayers has a broader and more complete feature set. MapBox takes advantage of newer technologies
- github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
- github.com/maputnik/editor maputnik - 矢量地图配图工具
- github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles awesome implementations of the Mapbox Vector Tile specification