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Why can't OSM zoom in farther? (www.openstreetmap.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the web UI, OSM can't be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don't have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn't reveal all that OSM has to offer.

Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The real answer you wanna hear is:

Soon no more! As they will move from pixel based tiles to vector based rendering which will massively speed up load times and allow any zoomlevel you want.

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/