OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history. These maps have had their rules and styles defined ahead of their rendering and present the end user with static PNGs. Below is a screenshot of the area around the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
This week, OSM began hosting vector tiles in Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) format.
This allows for the end user to adjust the style and rendering rules as well as extract the underlying information within each of the ti...
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