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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
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These maps have had their rules and styles defined ahead of their rendering and present the end user with static PNGs. The style sheet is optional and without it, QGIS can still render the vector data, albeit with colours it'll pick randomly. Other mapping tools can render the sprites for this style just fine but they appear as blurry black icons in QGIS for some reason.
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