layer: id: "place" description: | The place layer consists out of [countries](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcountry), [states](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dstate) and [cities](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place). Apart from the roads this is also one of the more important layers to create a beautiful map. We suggest you use different font styles and sizes to create a text hierarchy. fields: name: The OSM [`name`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name) value of the POI. name_en: English name `name:en` if available, otherwise `name`. name_de: German name `name:de` if available, otherwise `name` or `name:en`. capital: description: | The **capital** field marks the [`admin_level`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level) of the boundary the place is a capital of. values: [2, 4] class: description: | Original value of the [`place`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place) tag. Distinguish between continents, countries, states and places like settlements or smaller entities. Use **class** to separately style the different places and build a text hierarchy according to their importance. values: - continent - country - state - city - town - village - hamlet - suburb - quarter - neighbourhood - isolated_dwelling iso_a2: description: | Two-letter country code [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2). Available only for `class=country`. Original value of the [`country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcountry) tag. rank: description: | Countries, states and the most important cities all have a **rank** to boost their importance on the map. The **rank** field for counries and states ranges from `1` to `6` while the **rank** field for cities ranges from `1` to `10` for the most important cities and continues from `10` serially based on the local importance of the city (derived from population and city class). You can use the **rank** to limit density of labels or improve the text hierarchy. The rank value is a combination of the Natural Earth `scalerank`, `labelrank` and `datarank` values for countries and states and for cities consists out of a shifted Natural Earth `scalerank` combined with a local rank within a grid for cities that do not have a Natural Earth `scalerank`. buffer_size: 256 datasource: geometry_field: geometry key_field: osm_id key_field_as_attribute: no query: (SELECT osm_id, geometry, name, name_en, name_de, {name_languages}, class, rank, capital, iso_a2 FROM layer_place(!bbox!, z(!scale_denominator!), !pixel_width!)) AS t schema: - ./types.sql - ./capital.sql - ./city.sql - ./island_rank.sql - ./update_continent_point.sql - ./update_country_point.sql - ./update_island_polygon.sql - ./update_island_point.sql - ./update_state_point.sql - ./update_city_point.sql - ./place.sql datasources: - type: imposm3 mapping_file: ./mapping.yaml