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What is a tile server in OSM cards

My application is completely on maps that show contacts and route information and the distance between two contacts. For this, I'm trying to use OSM maps instead of Google Maps, because Google maps had certain limitations if the user is growing. So my client wants other maps instead of Google maps. Then after research, I found out that OSM is a different approach. But it has some limitations for using the tile server. But I do not understand what it is. one please tell me what it is and is it better to go with OSM

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As far as I know, a Tile server is a server that hosts an OSM card. You can create your own Tile server and replicate data to this server from another Tile server.

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A tile server is a service that generates tiles from a database. Therefore, it requires a large storage capacity for both the database and the displayed fragments. It also requires bandwidth and a CPU, but mostly depends on the access frequency of your tile server.

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