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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 thanks. I think I misinterpreted the announcement a little. Now, that I have thought about it more I understand that it is about the data served by osm, rather than what is displayed on openstreetmap.org
@janekdererste @openstreetmap it will be a new way of offering data, primarily for display on OSM.org but hopefully usable by many others for cool applications.
@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!