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2024: announcing the year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps | OpenStreetMap Blog (blog.openstreetmap.org)

submitted 9 months ago by Mannivu@feddit.it to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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2024: announcing the year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps | OpenStreetMap Blog

Grosse novità all'orizzonte! Quest'anno dovrebbe essere l'anno in cui su OSM.org arriverà finalmente un layer vettoriale.

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good!
Vector maps were always an obvious choice, and SVGs have been available for 25 yrs, what I don't get is why raster became the fashion? Is it related to evolution of client-side processing power?

[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Maybe it's just harder to break vectors into tiles for partial downloads. You have to know not only the vector coords that are in the tile but also all those that connect to those within the tile