Message Thanks for the answer Ian! I think I get it now. Are there any on-going works for building a vector-based pipeline? I'm …

17 September 2026

Thanks for the answer Ian! I think I get it now. Are there any on-going works for building a vector-based pipeline? I'm interested in contributing there.

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Ian Wagner00:32One of the particular challenges for editing is that the OSM carto style is super information dense. That compresses down to pixels in a raster tile. In a vecto I

Ian Wagner00:33TL;DR vector is far superior for *most* map users, and honestly everyone should be using them now. But for the map editing use case it’s not as straightforward

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Ian Wagner01:01Yes, definitely some ongoing stuff. I don’t know the best place to connect with the devs, but it’s *probably* either the OSM community forum (e.g. this post; th A

Amiria01:02Thanks!