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We open sourced our at Also added two @openrailwaymap overlays!

Do you know our label layers mix quite well with @stamen's watercolor background?

#style Some new icons are supported! 1. cuisine=ramen/noodle/udon 2. amenity=events_venue 3. solar farm plant:sourcesolar=solar 4.amenity=childcare

#style We are adding icons for shop=storage_rental and amenity=school/university. School icon is a lovely combo of pencil and apple from @mapbox's maki icon set. Other two come from @flaticon.

#opensource We launched another open source project "OpenStreetMap Routes Index" This project list route relations based on country and matching tags. For example here is a list of NYC subways

#style Place names in some sparsely populated countries will be displayed from lower zoom level to increase visibility.

Played a bit with #Felt's raster support. Works pretty well with topo base map. Surprised to see a route annotation option. Well done well done.

In this week we added two more language layers: Swedish(sv) and Turkish(tr): Also added an edge server at Ashburn, US:

We've updated the information page about current update schedules. There is also an interactive map showing areas with changes in the last 7 days, which are being rendered.

#update Our two-day and weekly tile render schedules are a bit off due to increasing render backlog. We are trying to simplify updates to a simple 7-day frequency based on map changes.

Lately we've revised our storage architecture to incorporate S3 (compatible) object storage as a main tile repository (previously render server). The storage is replicated to Asia. Latency should be improved as a result. We are populating a few TB's of tiles to the storage.

#render natural=peak in US will soon be rendered in feet.

Just launched another language layer: Thai! Check it out in Explorer:

#ops The edge server in Germany has been running uninterruptedly for three months. Time to reboot!

#opensource We just open-sourced our bus routes map layer. If you want to experiment or contribute, please check out

The Topo map has some glitches at some areas. It's because raster DEM data is converted to a shape file, which has a size limit of 2GB. We'll soon start to find a solution for this.

#style Check out some new render of localized road shields! As our toolchain and workflow improve, the efficiency should be higher and we'll cover more countries in the coming months. Our rendering machines are full steam ahead doing their work to deliver it to you.

Current work in progress mostly revolves around localised highway shields. Next update will contain better shields for NL, BE and LU.