OpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMap

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• computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Before anyone gets too deep I’d like to point out that this is just about hosting vector tiles, the actual tile gen is a separate project

  github.com/onthegomap/planetiler

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• muzzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are there any android apps that use this yet?

  Do you think osmand has any plan to add support?

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  • boramalper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a brand new project so I’m sure no apps are using this yet or even have plans to.

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    • muzzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, here is hoping!

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won’t take many of us to get to $175/mo.

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• Vitaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m curious how much faster it is rather than downloading images

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  • boramalper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean how much faster downloading vector tiles are in comparison to raster tiles?

    I think pre-rendering makes the biggest difference, rather than the type of tiles.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Loading vector tiles should require significantly less data/bandwidth while also offering completely linear scaling without any steps. I hope this works well enough to eventually replace the current implementation.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They generally intend to move to vectors afaik. There was a blogpost and call for donations by them a while ago.

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  • boramalper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, vectors. See github.com/onthegomap/planetiler

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neat

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files.

  Wow. Btrfs ftw

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