<story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Way overdue. OpenStreetMap&amp;#x27;s website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.&lt;p&gt;What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.&lt;p&gt;I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I&amp;#x27;m not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;#layers=P&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;#layers=P&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>If anyone wants to experiment with vector OSM data today I can very firmly recommend Protomaps - I wrote about that here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&amp;#x2F;gis&amp;#x2F;pmtiles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&amp;#x2F;gis&amp;#x2F;pmtiles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a vector map I built with it of Half Moon Bay California &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simonw.github.io&amp;#x2F;hmb-map&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simonw.github.io&amp;#x2F;hmb-map&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>