Message I think the Shortbread schema is extremely light on details right now. OMT has more, but note that those tiles will typi…

17 September 2026

I think the Shortbread schema is extremely light on details right now. OMT has more, but note that those tiles will typically be quite a bit behind the OSM database (like days, not minutes or hours). I *think* the goal is to get Shortbread to a point where it’d be useful for editors and IIRC it also has a similar render on demand + cache + invalidate approach as the raster tiles.

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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 I

Ian Wagner15:40Cut labels are a perennial problem, but yeah it does manage to pack a lot more detail if that’s what you want. The Shortbread and OMT schemas are not really des

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mnalis15:47I'm not sure I follow - most if not all OSM editors I know do not use tiles at all, but use "vector" XML format provided via OSM API 0.6 for on specified bbox? L

Luc19:00how come it's so much heavier than a normal SVG then? Maybe that it needs to be parsed in JS instead of in native code that the browser invokes when it is asked