<p>Maybe, at point in the future, with vector tiles it might be possible in theory.</p>

<p>In practice the number of combinations of things that people might want is so mind boggling that it's hard to believe a reasonable interface could be devised that an average user would be able to cope with.</p>

<p>If and when we have vector tiles with client side rendering then this could be revisited if somebody wanted to put the effort in, but that is probably a year or more away at least.</p>

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