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There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files.
Wow. Btrfs ftw
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.
They generally intend to move to vectors afaik. There was a blogpost and call for donations by them a while ago.
Yep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
Neat.
I’m curious how much faster it is rather than downloading images
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.
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.
It says in the repo that each file is 450 bytes. And served by nginx which might be compressing it further. So yeah, super duper tiny.
