Hi, On 05/28/2012 09:31 AM, Ander Pijoan wrote:
As part of my GSoC I am going to improve OSM data rendering in KDE's Marble and one of the tasks is to prepare Marble for vector tilling. I see there's one student working on a vector tile server and that there are some tests already developed (http://osmosnimki.ru/vtile/) using GeoJSON.
There was also an announcement by a guy named Sandor Seres who seems to be involved with an outfit called fasterimagining.com about vector tiling on this list recently but it is completely unclear what, if any, portion of their software is Open Source or whether that was just advertising.
In addition, Development Seed have recently sought funding for an OSM-related project that includes improving access to OSM data which I believe means some sort of vector tiling as well but I'm unsure if they have progressed beyond the "we'd like to work on that if someone gives us money" stage - Tom MAcWright might be able to say more. If they do develop something then it is likely to have more manpower behind it than the average OSM volunteer coding project, which doesn't mean it's better but it's likely to be.
There's also a vector tile backend related to Komzpa's "Kothic" renderer (see http://code.google.com/p/kothic/), I'm not sure if that is the same as the osmosnimki.ru effort.
My question is if this format is going to be definetly or these are only tests.
I'm not involved with any of these but I can say for sure that it is far from clear whether OSM itself will ever offer vector tiles and if they do, what format or style these tiles would be in. The one thing that is definite here is that nothing is definite.
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