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OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org in 2024.
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/
@openstreetmap sounds awesome. I haven’t understood whether OSM is going to develop its own vector tile renderer or whether they’ll be using an existing one?
@janekdererste @openstreetmap a bit of both - the existing bricks of osm2pgsql, postgis, Shortbread schema, orchestrated by new custom code to generate incremental updates to vector tiles. To generate tiles without incremental updates, there are already many great options.
@grischard @openstreetmap what does incremental updates mean? Like you have rendered your tile once and then the files are updated? Or rather only replace those files with new ones where changes have happened?
@janekdererste @openstreetmap it means only the tiles where the data has changed are updated. If, say, you change a road name, then the tiles that contain that road at all relevant zoom levels.
@grischard @openstreetmap thanks for the answer!