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Message But yeah, you colud have certain base layers as a PNG “background” and only send over vector layers for things like line…

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But yeah, you colud have certain base layers as a PNG “background” and only send over vector layers for things like linear features and text.

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Ian Wagner14:46That’s basically what MVT is though (and soon MLT). It’s just an efficient binary format. Renderers like MapLibre GL JS use hardware acceleration where availabl I

Ian Wagner14:48But middle ground approaches generally are possible. For example in OpenLayers you can mix raster and vector layers (of multiple types; even GeoJSON and I think

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Ian Wagner14:51Text rendering is the worst thing about raster tiles. It’s actually pretty great for things like landcover. Even buildings and some linear features can be OK. B M

mnalis15:39What do you mean, there are at least two vector tiles on openstreetmap.org website? Click on the layers icon and choose Shortbread or MapTiler OMT. Or did you m

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