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Yeah going to full 20 requires about 2TB iirc, OSM doesn't host beyond level 19 anymore either to reduce traffic. 14 is around 10m per pixel, best you'll be able to make out on that is like a street. Not useful enough to bother with imho, even 19 leaves a lot to be desired up close.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Zoom_levels




Worth noting that these are vector tiles and not raster tiles, so zoom levels work slightly differently. Generally you don't need as high zoom level with vector tiles since it is much easier to 'zoom in' on vector data than on raster data. A vector zoom level of 14 stores the data with roughly 50cm precision which is good enough for most casual mapping uses.


Ah quite right, I see they're mvt. In that case it might actually be usable.




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