Vector tiles on OSMF hardware - And JOSM rendering of tile layers?

[PierZen]

following pnorman thread Vector tiles on OSMF hardware

@pnorman

Hello all,

as a follow up to the [vector tiles discussed previously]), they are now running on OSMF hardware. The usage policy is not yet final, but you can use it now. The tilejson is at https://vector.openstreetmap.org/shortbread_v1/tilejson.json and the tiles are at https://vector.openstreetmap.org/shortbread_v1/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt.

This is a final production location, so you can build stuff based off of it. I’m sure there are still some bugs, but this soft launch should reveal them.

Could vector tiles be rendered easily in JOSM? Could we expect soon that vector tiles be rendered in JOSM ?

This is the new trend ! and It would be great to access the various vectortiles and have OSM tiles adapted to various languages.

[hfs]

JOSM already supports vector tiles as background imagery source!

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps#MapboxVectorTileServicesMVT

You’ll notice though, that it supports only a subset of the style language. So one would need to compose a map style specifically for JOSM’s limited options.

[vorpalblade-kaart (Taylor Smock)]

Yep. A subset of the style specification is supported in JOSM. If someone has a specific usecase, I can look into adding the requisite bits of the style specification. The style support in JOSM is converting the style to mapcss, so some things might not be (easily) possible.

When I wrote the initial version, I had a specific usecase in mind; Mapillary vector tiles.
That works.
I don’t recall seeing feature requests/bug reports asking for additional functionality for styling vector tiles, so my assumption is that it is not used by the community. That drastically reduces the priority of adding additional functionality.