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		SigmundA 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org Not SVG, its Mapbox Vector tile format which is like Geojson coded in protobuf it is then rendered to raster in the browser using webgl typically. https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.0 SVG is an XML based format that browsers render naitively, completely different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG

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