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by SigmundA 324 days ago
Not SVG, its Mapbox Vector tile format which is like Geojson coded in protobuf it is then rendered to raster in the browser using webgl typically.

https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.0

SVG is an XML based format that browsers render naitively, completely different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG