[kylebarron]

Most of these examples go up to zoom 10 or so because they cover a wide area. It's not prohibitive to increase that zoom in a small area because the total number of tiles will still be low. Also keep in mind that for vector data it's possible to "overzoom" and allow the client zoom levels to be higher than the physical data levels.

In terms of self hosted maps for outdoors use, I have some open source repos from a few years ago that may help with that. [0] is a style based on the openmaptiles vector tile schema for outdoors purposes. I believe that readme has some overall instructions, plus other repos in the org are for making data. (Nowadays planetiler is probably the best way to make OSM vector tiles though)

[0]: https://github.com/nst-guide/osm-liberty-topo

[caspg]

This basemap looks awesome. Need to play with this and see how hard is to run it on my own. It would totally fit nicely with my website https://travelermap.net.

[c0nsumer]

Thanks! I'll give that a look.

I agree it's very reasonable to have highly zoomed small area stuff, I just seem to be missing the gap between the OSM data and the tiles. I'll give that a read, thank you!