There’s more tweaking to do to get the map to look right at different zoom levels, but by in large I’m very happy going with a completely mapbox based solution. Here’s the current working map style that I’m playing with… At that point I added in roads and added a plugin called mapbox-gl-sync-move to toggle back and forth between the preview and the regular map instantaneously and seamlessly. This turned out to be pretty easy and worked well enough that when it came time to scrap the OSM data completely, I felt pretty comfortable creating a completely custom style to power the whole preview. Toggling back and forth between the map mode and the preview mode was painful.īefore I completely abandoned my OSM backed map, I thought I might be able to work around the lack of land polygons by creating a custom mapbox style that just had land and water… Even when it did work, it was really slow.all of Manhattan) routinely timed out or ran into rate limits that prevented data from loading. Querying for any location with a relatively zoomed out view (e.g.This means that there’s no clear boundary where the land ends and the ocean begins for any coastal maps. I don’t have land polygons made for arbitrary locations (and it would take quite a bit of work to produce those and host them).However the limitations of that approach became clear extremely quickly… I spent a good chunk of the morning wiring up real openstreetmap data that’s queried based on your current map view.

Day 19 update: Lots of improvements to the preview today.

Inkscape drawing coastline