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Both are available, see https://www.maptiler.com/maps/
The software Maptiler is for raster output. Not sure what that map page is supposed to demo.
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Maptiler is not OpenStreeMap - they're one of the many companies who productize OSM. Which is exactly the way it's meant to be.
I didn't understand that part. If I remember right, the open street map website used to have a demo page of their own. In any case I'm very happy to see this.
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Are you suggesting OSM has better point-of-interest search than Google Maps? I love OSM, but this doesn't match my experience at all. Can you provide a bit more detail, maybe some examples of searches that OSM has better data for than Google?
At least here in Sweden you have much more detailed POI info in the countryside, like rune stoned and such. In Google Maps they can be impossible to find, and even the small path leading to them do not appear.
This is raster tiles, not vector.
There is a toggle on the demo page that flips to vector. I also found that if I hold ctrl I can rotate at random and even go "3d" and see some of the building's heights (in London anyway). I've got no interest or relation in this (apart from being a OSM contributor years ago), but this is one of the most convincing alternatives to google maps I've seen. The free-rotate on the vector tiles really makes a difference.
Could I asked why you stopped contributing? I kind of feel like the userbase is struggling a bit, and I wonder if it's just Google's (using Android's) influence, or if it is something else.
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That, and OSM helps you find things other than retail outlets.
Are you suggesting OSM has better point-of-interest search than Google Maps? I love OSM, but this doesn't match my experience at all. Can you provide a bit more detail, maybe some examples of searches that OSM has better data for than Google?
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I didn't understand that part. If I remember right, the open street map website used to have a demo page of their own. In any case I'm very happy to see this.
OpenStreetMap's own demo page is openstreetmap.org (or osm.org). I find lima's reply also a little confusing, but I think he just means that it's fine for companies to take the data and use it for a map (and indeed it is), but I don't understand how that makes this not openstreetmap. I mean, technically OSM is the database, and the demo on their own page "is" not openstreetmap because openstreetmap isn't a demo but o…