Bora M. Alper to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoOpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMapopenfreemap.orgmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down13
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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️linkfedilinkEnglish26•8 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-squareBora M. AlperOPlinkfedilinkEnglish18•8 months agoYep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
minus-square@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish5•8 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.