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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️linkfedilinkEnglish26•4 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-square@boramalper@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish18•4 months agoYep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
minus-square@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 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.