Minutely updated vector tiles demo

[SomeoneElse (Andy Townsend)]

The advantage of doing so is that people (other than an external commercial entity) get to discuss what’s in it.

Elsewhere in OSM we’ve had people complaining about what “OSM Carto” does and doesn’t support and we have an entire wiki page about “controversial” iD editor discussions.

It’s especially important to discuss what’s in the schema here because as well as providing information to be used in a map at osm.org, there’s also the expectation that the data in these vector tiles can be used by other maps too. There needs to be a trade-off between the size of the tiles and the information that they contain, and unless people engage with that discussion I suspect that they may be disappointed.

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@pnorman

Maplibre has problems with some character sets

Hopefully we can find a solution in time for the debut of your vector tiles:

MapLibre complex text rendering demo

Many of you may be aware that popular vector map libraries such as Mapbox GL JS and MapLibre GL JS have inadequate support for rendering text in non-European writing systems. For example, although MapLibre can render CJKV text in general, an occasional rare character is skipped because it falls outside the original Unicode blocks allocated for CJK. In Devanagari and Thaana text, combining characters are misplaced. In Burmese and Sinhala, characters aren’t combined into ligatures as expected. In …

[pnorman (Paul Norman)]

@RicoElectrico

Do you really need a governance group to define a vector tile schema?

It’s not the initial definition, it’s who makes decisions on changes.

[osmuser63783]

@SomeoneElse

Elsewhere in OSM we’ve had people complaining about what “OSM Carto” does and doesn’t support and we have an entire wiki page about “controversial” iD editor discussions.

It’s especially important to discuss what’s in the schema here because as well as providing information to be used in a map at osm.org , there’s also the expectation that the data in these vector tiles can be used by other maps too.

Is that Shortbread? Or Spirit? Or both? Because they’re quite different in scope, aren’t they?

[pnorman (Paul Norman)]

I’ve been busy with some non-OSMF personal stuff and the OSMF Vector Tiles work hasn’t been the most visible user-facing stuff lately, but I now have the demo page using tiles served from OSMF hardware. I will post more details later, but I wanted to do a soft launch. I know there’s a few bugs still present, and those need ironing out.