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+# boundary
+
+Contains administrative boundaries as linestrings (no maritime boundaries yet) as linestrings.
+Until z7 [Natural Earth data](http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-0-countries/)
+is used after which OSM boundaries ([`boundary=administrative`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative)) are present from z8 to z14.
+OSM data contains all [`admin_level`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level)
+but for most styles it makes sense to just style `admin_level=2` and `admin_level=4`.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **admin_level**: OSM [admin_level](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level)
+indicating the level of importance of this boundary.
+At low zoom levels the Natural Earth boundaries are mapped to the equivalent admin levels.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](boundary.png)
+
+
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+# building
+
+All [OSM Buildings](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buildings). All building tags are imported ([`building=*`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building)). The buildings are not yet ready for 3D rendering support and any help to improve
+this is welcomed.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **render_min_height**: An approximated height from levels and height of the bottom of the building or building:part after the method of Paul Norman in [OSM Clear](https://github.com/ClearTables/osm-clear). For future 3D rendering of buildings.
+- **render_height**: An approximated height from levels and height of the building or building:part after the method of Paul Norman in [OSM Clear](https://github.com/ClearTables/osm-clear). For future 3D rendering of buildings.
+
+
+
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+# highway
+
+Roads or [`highway`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway) in OpenStreetMap lingo.
+This layer is directly derived from the OSM road hierarchy which is why it is called `highway`. Only
+at zoom level 4 to 7 some major highways from Natural Earth are used otherwise it is only OSM data.
+It contains all roads from motorways to primary, secondary and tertiary roads to residential roads and
+foot paths. Styling the roads is the most essential part of the map. If you can put enough effort into it
+makes sense to carefully style each `subclass`. For more comfortable styling you can also just style the roads
+by `class`. Roads can have different properties, a road can have `oneway=yes` and `bridge=yes` at the same time.
+These properties are reflected in the field `properties`.
+This layer is not meant for labelling the roads (the purpose of the layer `highway_name`).
+
+The `highway` layer also contains polygons for things like plazas.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: Either `motorway`, `major_road` (containing `trunk`, `primary`, `secondary` and `tertiary` roads) and `minor_road` (less important roads in the hierarchy like `residential` or `service`) or `path` for
+non vehicle paths (such as `cycleway` or `footpath`).
+- **subclass**: Original value of the [`highway`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway) tag. Use this to do more
+precise styling.
+- **properties**: Additional properties describing the nature of road.
+The properties `bridge` and `tunnel` can be combined with `oneway` as well. So to style all bridges the same you
+should style both the properties `bridge` and `bridge:oneway`.
+Properties can be one of `bridge:oneway`, `tunnel:oneway`, `ramp`, `ford`, `bridge`, `tunnel` or`oneway`.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](highway.png)
+
+
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+# highway_name
+
+This is the layer for labelling the highways. Only highways that are named `name=*` and are long enough
+to place text upon appear. The OSM roads are stitched together if they contain the same name
+to have better label placement than having many small linestrings.
+For motorways you should use the `ref` field to label them while for other roads you should use `name`.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **ref**: The OSM [`ref`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref) tag of the motorway or road.
+- **ref_length**: Length of the `ref` field. Useful for having a shield icon as background for labeling motorways.
+- **name**: The OSM [`name`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highways#Names_and_references) value of the highway.
+- **subclass**: Original value of the [`highway`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway) tag. Use this to do more
+precise styling.
+- **class**: Either `motorway`, `major_road` (containing `trunk`, `primary`, `secondary` and `tertiary` roads) and `minor_road` (less important roads in the hierarchy like `residential` or `service`) or `path` for
+non vehicle paths (such as `cycleway` or `footpath`).
+
+
+
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+# housenumber
+
+Everything in OpenStreetMap which contains a `addr:housenumber` tag useful for labelling housenumbers on a map.
+This adds significant size to *z14*. For buildings the centroid of the building is used as housenumber.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **housenumber**: Value of the [`addr:housenumber`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr) tag.
+
+
+
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+# landcover
+
+Landcover is used to describe the physical material at the surface of the earth. At lower zoom levels this is
+from Natural Earth data for glaciers and ice shelves and at higher zoom levels the landcover is implied
+by OSM tags (like `landuse` or `natural`).
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: More generalized groups of either `farmland`, `ice`, `wood`, `grass` or `wetland`.
+Use this to assign general colors to the landcover.
+- **subclass**: Original value of either the `landuse`, `natural` or `wetland` tag.
+Use this to do more precise styling.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](landcover.png)
+
+
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+# landuse
+
+Landuse is used to describe use of land by humans.At lower zoom levels this is
+from Natural Earth data for residential (urban) areas and at higher zoom levels mostly OSM `landuse` tags.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: More generalized groups of either `park`, `school`, `hospital`, `railway`,
+`cemetery`, `military`, `residential`. Use this to assign general for landuse.
+- **subclass**: Original value of either the `amenity`, `landuse`, `leisure` or `boundary` tag.
+Use this to do more precise styling.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](landuse.png)
+
+
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+# place
+
+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_en**: The english `name:en` value if available.
+- **name**: The OSM [`name`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name) value of the POI.
+- **rank**: 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).
+Use the `rank` field to build a 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`.
+- **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
+
+![](place.png)
+
+
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+# poi
+
+[Points of interests](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Points_of_interest) containing
+a of a variety of OpenStreetMap tags. Mostly contains amenities, sport, shop and tourist POIs.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: More general classes of POIs. If there is no more general `class` for the `subclass`
+this field will contain the same value as `subclass`.
+But for example for schools you only need to style the class `school` to filter the subclasses `school`
+and `kindergarten`. Or use the class `shop` to style all shops.
+- **name_en**: The english `name:en` value if available.
+- **name**: The OSM [`name`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name) value of the POI.
+- **rank**: The POIs are ranked ascending according to their importance within a grid. The `rank` value shows the
+local relative importance of a POI within it's cell in the grid. This can be used to reduce label density at z14.
+Since all POIs already need to be contained at `z14` you can use `less than rank=10` epxression to limit
+POIs. At some point like z17 you can show all POIs.
+- **subclass**: Original value of either the
+[`amenity`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity),
+[`leisure`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leisure),
+[`landuse`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse),
+[`sport`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sport),
+[`tourism`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tourism)
+or [`shop`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop)
+tag.  Use this to do more precise styling.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](poi.png)
+
+
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+# water
+
+Water polygons representing oceans and lakes. Covered watered areas are excluded (`covered=yes`).
+Until z6 all water originates from Natural Earth. To get a more correct display of the south pole you should also
+style the covering ice shelves over the water.
+Water from OpenStreetMap after z7 is split into many smaller polygons to improve rendering performance.
+This however can lead to less rendering options in clients since these boundaries show up. So you might not be
+able to use border styling for ocean water features.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: Either `ocean`, `lake` or `river`.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](water.png)
+
+
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+# water_name
+
+Lake center lines for labelling lake bodies.
+This is based of the [osm-lakelines](https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/osm-lakelines) project
+which derives nice centerlines from OSM water bodies. Only the most important lakes contain labels.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **name_en**: The english `name:en` value if available.
+- **name**: The OSM [`name`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name) value of the water body.
+- **class**: At the moment only `lake` since no ocean parts are labelled. *Reserved for future use*.
+
+
+
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+# waterway
+
+Rivers based of OpenStreetMap [waterways](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waterways) for *z8* to *z14*
+and Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines from *z3* to *z7*.
+Too short linestrings are filtered out for some zoom levels. Waterways do no not have a `subclass`.
+
+## Fields
+
+- **class**: The original value of the [`waterway`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway) tag.
+Can be one of [`stream`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dstream),
+[`river`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver),
+[`canal`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dcanal),
+[`drain`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Ddrain),
+[`ditch`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dditch)`.
+
+## Mapping
+
+![](waterway.png)
+
+
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