Amᵃᵖanda | OSM Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ on Nostr: OSM data is often distributed in OSM PBF format. But I think DP/DHL is using vector ...

OSM data is often distributed in OSM PBF format. But I think DP/DHL is using vector tiles. The file name ends in .pbf too, and the OSM PBF uses protobuf format for some of it too. But the file format internally is very different, and optimized for differnet things.