[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Support client-side rendered featured layers (#2686)

[Tom Hughes]

Well it doesn't concern any layers right now, but the long term goal is to move the default layer to a vector layer which, if we use client side rendering, would require webgl support on the client. Paul is saying that as things stand we probably need to maintain a non-vector alternative at least on the client side but that could be achieved with server side rendering of vector tiles.

The immediate proposal on this ticket is about adding support for vector layers along side our current layers and specifically to do that bu switching the toolkit we use to display maps to a GL based one.

I'm not familiar enough with maplibre-gl-js to know it is supports bitmap layers itself and whether if it does it requires WeBGL to display them?

One caveat I'll add is that Paul's data was based on only a few hours because the webgl data collection was broken until late last night but it's consistent with what I saw earlier in the week for a full day.

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