• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files.

    Wow. Btrfs ftw

    • boramalper@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      You mean how much faster downloading vector tiles are in comparison to raster tiles?

      I think pre-rendering makes the biggest difference, rather than the type of tiles.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        Loading vector tiles should require significantly less data/bandwidth while also offering completely linear scaling without any steps. I hope this works well enough to eventually replace the current implementation.