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by NoPedantsThanks 846 days ago
Wasn't there a post on here recently about OSM going to vector-based tiles? I did a quick search and it seems like this is already a widely-offered option. Can anyone jog our memory on what the change is?
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The OSM Foundation is building out a stack to generate 'minutely' vector tiles -- meaning the if you edit the map, it'll be reflected in the vector tiles within a few minutes.

Most vector tile sets today generated from OSM are hours behind the current state of the map data in the best case, much more commonly they are months behind.

OSM foundation is going to host vector tiles and build a stack to keep them up to date with ongoing editing.

You are probably talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339182

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like a nice addition.