openmaptiles/layers/place/README.md

place

The place layer consists out of countries, states and cities. 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_en: The english name:en value if available.
• name: The OSM name value of the POI.
• rank: Countries, states and the most important cities all have a rank field ranging from 1 to 6 which marks the importance of the feature. Less important places do not have a rank. Use this to build a text hierarchy. The rank value originates from Natural Earth data and is either the original scalerank for cities or the original labelrank for countries and states.
• class: Distinguish between country, state and other city classes like city, town, village, hamlet, suburb, neighbourhood or isolated_dwelling. Use this to separately style the different places according to their importance (usually country and state different than cities).

Mapping