Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
by qwertox on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:15PM
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My experience with it is that vector tiles can become very CPU-heavy on the client, specially when moving into 3D space like with MapLibre's terrain layers.
It's less computationally expensive to just fetch a pre-rendered tile and drape it onto the map, which keeps rotating, panning an tilting very performant.
It doesn't look that nice, so there's the tradeoff. It can also be easier to just cache tiles on the end device and resort to them instead of constantly reassemble the vector layers.
It's less computationally expensive to just fetch a pre-rendered tile and drape it onto the map, which keeps rotating, panning an tilting very performant.
It doesn't look that nice, so there's the tradeoff. It can also be easier to just cache tiles on the end device and resort to them instead of constantly reassemble the vector layers.