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by jillesvangurp 1524 days ago
A lot of rendering is vector based these days and uses webgl to do it but there are still a lot of tile servers using images as well. This article is from 2015. Vector maps were less common then and webgl was a lot less mature.

For example maplibre is a great option for rendering vector based openstreet maps from e.g. maptiler or mapbox. They can tilt the maps, render buildings in 3D, have step less zooming, etc.