A sneak peak at Thunderforest Lightning maps

Here’s a few screenshots from my new Lightning tile-server:

transport

A refresh of the Transport Style, built on a brand new, state-of-the-art vector tiles backend.

transport-dark

Thunderforest Lightning makes it easy to create custom map styles sharing vector tile backends. Here’s a Dark variant for the Transport layer.

transport-dark-large

Vector tiles bring lots of other benefits - like high-performance retina maps!

Development is going full-steam, and Lightning will be launching soon. Check back for more updates!

This post was posted on 28 March 2014 and tagged mapnik, OpenStreetMap, thunderforest, vector