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.
OpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMap
Submitted 7 months ago by boramalper@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
boramalper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yep, vectors. See github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Neat
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
They generally intend to move to vectors afaik. There was a blogpost and call for donations by them a while ago.
computergeek125@lemmy.world 7 months 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
Vitaly@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I’m curious how much faster it is rather than downloading images
boramalper@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won’t take many of us to get to $175/mo.
muzzle@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Are there any android apps that use this yet?
Do you think osmand has any plan to add support?
boramalper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is a brand new project so I’m sure no apps are using this yet or even have plans to.
muzzle@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well, here is hoping!
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Wow. Btrfs ftw