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The barriers to adopting vector-everywhere are social and commercial, not technical.

There are a couple great public raster services like osm.org's default style and http://maps.stamen.com. These are 100% free to use, so they get used everywhere, but incur significant expense to the organizations running (paying) for them.

There aren't equivalent solutions in vector-land yet... I wrote a bit about this previously: https://protomaps.com/blog/free-tier-maps



https://maps.qwant.com uses vector tiles, altough polygon simplification at lower zoom levels could be improved.

Their stack is open sorce, described there: https://github.com/Qwant/qwantmaps#tile-server




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