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While I love OSM for the data and the free approach, one thing which annoys me with OSM is that their main map doesn’t support hdpi (retina) displays. That make
by theomega 8y ago
While I love OSM for the data and the free approach, one thing which annoys me with OSM is that their main map doesn’t support hdpi (retina) displays. That makes the map look ugly on iPad and MacBooks at least, I suspect on much more recent devices.
- Doctor_Fegg 8y agoThere's tentative discussions underway about providing a vector-based rendering on osm.org to augment the current raster styles, which of course would be resolution-independent.
- Symbiote 8y agoThese look fine on my 4K display, but too small in my phone. https://osm.rrze.fau.de/testhd.html https://osm.rrze.fau.de/testhd.html OpenMapTiles.org provide vector tiles using OSM, but they don't include all the data for efficiency. I think the problem for OSM is choosing which data to include in the vector tiles. The tile could get very large, but the outdoor view benefits from including electricity pylons.