jomo
The OSM foundation finally announced vector maps coming to osm.org! 🥳
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/
They hired @pnorman, who regularly posts technical details about vector maps on https://www.paulnorman.ca/.
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@jomo @dx @pnorman Very interesting! I would think that this would also make it cheaper to serve OSM.org, but I don't know anything about this kind of stuff, and it wasn't mentioned in the post. Any thoughts on this, are vector maps heavier or lighter than raster maps?
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@dx @jomo @pnorman Sure, just a simple CSS layer on top of OSM, instead of having to draw new tiles for everything, would be amazing!
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@forteller @jomo @pnorman I also wonder if this opens up custom styles while hitting the OSM server. Currently you need to generate and host your own raster tiles if you want to change the style of OSM. I don’t know how vector maps are served, but if it’s geographic data with client side rendering, maybe this would facilitate easy style changes
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@forteller @jomo @pnorman Interesting point. I’ve dived into maps some for a project and the way the current OSM works is basically square images saved at every discrete magnification level. I have to imagine vector is an improvement on that, since you can have a single data source used by all magnification levels (and just change the rendering rules)
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