Also from my side, thanks to open the door to vector tiles for us. Vector tiles can be useful if they contains additional informations.
I think there two practical use-cases, that I hope we can see soon: *If we have all language tags inside we can create multilingual maps. *If we would have a start- and an end-date for each object we could generate maps for OpenHistoricalMap.
The generation of these maps can happen on server-side or client-side.
In the past it was not possible to provide such services, because database requests took too long. To make a request on a vector tile is much faster. If you have the date, the pure rendering takes only Milliseconds.
So this is only the beginning.
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
P.S.: I include the style as optional layer inside the OSM-map we have in different language version (de,fr,ru,...).
Am 18.09.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Guillaume Allegre:
I'm a bit confused here. Are you sure it's Geojson ? For me, it is a custom low-level json format produced by mapbox tool, as "documented" here : https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/1.0.1 but it's not Geojson.
For the moment, I don't see how to use this information to produce additional service. Would you know an example of this kind, please ?
(for example, that would be great to click on a node on the tile, with a "sticky road" feature ; only an example).
Nevertheless, you did a great job working on this new map stack. Many thanks and applauses !