At the State of the Map conference, some OSM developers were discussing the possibility of migrating osm.org to the vector-based backend. I would like to get some feedback on feasibility and desirability of this effort.
Kartotherian <https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian>, the Mapnik+Mapbox-based vector service has been implemented and trial-launched <https://maps.wikimedia.org/> at Wikipedia. The service itself is fairly stable, but the styles can use some improvements - both the sql->vtile <https://github.com/kartotherian/osm-bright.tm2source> and vtile->image <https://github.com/kartotherian/osm-bright.tm2>. Hopefully this work can be used as the basis for the osm.org style. Once the vtiles are ready, we can easily move to client side WebGL rendering. P.S. Paul Norman has applied <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimedia_Maps_Rendering_Improvements> for a grant to help us with style work. Please add your support and comments to his proposal. Thanks!
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