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

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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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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Raster is better for contiguous areas really, lossy compression can be helpful!

Think height maps, climatology datasets, coasts/land/rivers, deltas/swamps etc

Vector data and tiles make soo much more sense though for 99% of OSM, kudos on the switch. Will we also see a switch to maplibre I wonder? Or more compatible I do suppose