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Hi, Protomaps author here (not author of the linked article) - can you link the area you're seeing the rendering issues? Most demos are built using OpenStreetMap data, which should be decent for NZ, so curious what the root cause is here.

(EDIT: if you're referring to the landing page demo, it only displays data to a limited zoom level (10), so I've fixed that to not display the map too far beyond that. Thanks!)

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BTW this limitation made me believe that the data distributed with Protomaps is limited to that zoom level in general. Some wording related to "data" and "shopping" near that map quickly made me assume that deeper zoom levels will cost money.

Are you presenting a limitation of the product on the front page or is this just a limiting presentation of your product? Mind the difference.

The limitation is of the demo, which uses a publicly accessible asset on cloud storage.

The near-term goal for Protomaps to support z15, which is beyond what most OSM-based solutions provide; there's over a billion addressable tiles for just this one zoom level, and the Protomaps format (PMTiles) is designed with these use cases in mind.

I'll find a better way to communicate this on the site, thanks.

Yes that has fixed it! I edited my comment to avoid unnecessarily criticizing the project. I had assumed that was normal/expected behavior because it was on the homepage.

It is a very slick system, I am sure I will be using it in the future.

> because it was on the homepage

This was ‘only’ a diary page, of one of the 10 M OSM accounts.

I was having a discussion with the Protomaps author about the homepage of his project.

Sorry, misunderstood.

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