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Re:15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps by nojvek on Friday November 24, 2023 @08:33AM (#38403776)
I wish open street maps had vectorized maps instead of the tiled images.

Google maps is in need of real competition. It feels stagnant and regressing over time.

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Re:15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps by dalkvist on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:08AM (#38405330)
Several companies have osm vector tiles, mapbox among them. Osm.org isn't really for end-users, the focus is on mappers.
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