The OSM foundation finally announced vector maps coming to osm.org!
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/
They hired @pnorman, who regularly posts technical details about vector maps on https://www.paulnorman.ca/.
@forteller @jomo @pnorman Interesting point. I’ve dived into maps some for a project and the way the current OSM works is basically square images saved at every discrete magnification level. I have to imagine vector is an improvement on that, since you can have a single data source used by all magnification levels (and just change the rendering rules)
@forteller @jomo @pnorman I also wonder if this opens up custom styles while hitting the OSM server. Currently you need to generate and host your own raster tiles if you want to change the style of OSM. I don’t know how vector maps are served, but if it’s geographic data with client side rendering, maybe this would facilitate easy style changes
@dx @forteller @jomo @pnorman that’s the goal, and easily mixing with other datasets like isolines.