• egrets@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      What’s the distinction you’re drawing here? I don’t know the implementation details, but my understanding is that it’s fundamentally exactly the same thing: the map is rendered by the browser/client using lines and polygons, rather than loading pre-rendered tiled images.

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        9 days ago

        @egrets
        I think vector tiles normally have a degree of style independence that normal vector graphic don’t?

        I think with e.g. SVG the colours, text positioning and font etc. would all be specified when the file was created.

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