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by maxerickson 3705 days ago
Keep in mind that the tiles shown by default on the OpenStreetMap website are just an example rendering. Anyone can take the OpenStreetMap data and use it to render a map with different cartographic choices.

There's even several other example renderings that can be easily accessed on the website, for example

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/40.5253/-74.2003&layers...