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Thanks for the blatantly marketing Overture on a Thread about downloading OSM data.

"developer" is a slightly weird way of putting it. osm.org is the contributor portal and demo site for OpenStreetMap, and yes it is not and never has been intended as an end user r…

To answer the question: somebody needs to do the initial work and it's a further moving part that needs to be kept running (as the other responses point out such a distribution wou…

If you want to add more details (don't overdo it) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

See https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/foursquare-releases-10...

As Doctor_Fegg has pointed out further down, the OSMF provided raster tile service on openstreetmap.org is primarily intended to provide fast feedback to contributors and not for g…

The article wasn't authored by anybody actually involved with the service or setting it up, just in case that wasn't clear. Paul has written a blog post or two on the subject https…

No it doesn't.

Sure you could .... but to find something you would need to have the tile in question so you would need to calculate the tile to retrieve, and then find the object at the location …

> It contains the OSM data (obviously) ... Not really. You need to build geometries from raw OSM data (aka the stuff that you edit) then transform those geometries into MVT format …

Different use case. Tippecanoe takes geojson and splits it up into tiles, we are talking about doing that with OSM data here. Typically you will want to apply some normalisation of…

Well nobody claimed things are going to get simpler. It is difficult to beat raster tiles in that respect. vector tiles split up responsibility for what you get visually over multi…

The whole point of vector tiles is that the rendering is local and controlled by a style configuration (except for the tile schema) that can be changed. So the brokenness you are s…

Just to nip this in the bud, OpenStreetMap in general doesn't contain "translations" it contains the exonyms that are commonly in use for geographic objects. Most of the time thing…

... it doesn't? One of the downsides of MVTs and the typical max zoom level of 14 is that that they do require more local resources than simply rendering a 256x256 bitmap. For OSM …

Both apps mainly use downloaded/"offline" preprocessed map data in their own formats. MVT format vector tiles are not remotely suitable for navigation or search (not ruling out tha…

No, because you've been able to self host (or have somebody host them for you) vector tiles for a long time with very little effort, and yes that will somewhat offload processing t…

> You don't have to do this yourself, just understand that simple apps are a good way to bring new users in, ... Except that the numbers show the opposite.

The easiest thing people can do these days is to take georeferenced photographs with their phones, best with a photo app that will record the direction the phone was pointing, for …

First OSM existed and was already quite good many years before we got access to Bing imagery (2010). Undoubtedly there was a big boost in some types of mapping due to a reasonable …

I need to quote myself on this thread https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/1534079141640904705 Steve hasn't been a relevant force in OSM for more than a decade and if you want to do O…

That was an issue because of the validation pipeline Mapbox was using at the time, the vandalism had long been fixed in OpenStreetMap proper when the story hit the news. So, yes, y…

Impersonation is explicitly banned https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use If it applies to the situation at hand is naturally questionable.

Not really even that. What is currently on the table is simply a way to cleanly differentiate between closed ways that are polygons and actual closed ways. Example roundabout enclo…

Likely because it is tedious (think watching paint dry) and expensive. And except if you take a shotgun approach to the service/goods classes you register in, you are still going t…