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: The English `name:en` value or local `name` if not available. 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 - neighbourhood - isolated_dwelling 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: 128 datasource: geometry_field: geometry query: (SELECT geometry, name, name_en, name_de, class, rank, capital FROM layer_place(!bbox!, z(!scale_denominator!), !pixel_width!)) AS t schema: - ./types.sql - ./capital.sql - ./city.sql - ./island_polygon_update.sql - ./island_rank.sql - ./merge_country_rank.sql - ./merge_city_rank.sql - ./merge_state_rank.sql - ./layer.sql datasources: - type: imposm3 mapping_file: ./mapping.yaml