boramalper@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoOpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMapopenfreemap.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down13
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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 months agoI haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.
minus-squareboramalper@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·2 months agoYep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThey generally intend to move to vectors afaik. There was a blogpost and call for donations by them a while ago.
I haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.
Yep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
Neat.
They generally intend to move to vectors afaik. There was a blogpost and call for donations by them a while ago.