diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index c759365..1b93730 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ The **OpenMapTiles** wiki contains the generated layer documentation which can a - [boundary](boundary) - [building](building) -- [highway](highway) -- [highway_name](highway_name) +- [transportation](transportation) +- [transportation_name](transportation_name) - [housenumber](housenumber) - [landcover](landcover) - [landuse](landuse) +- [park](park) - [place](place) - [poi](poi) - [railway](railway) diff --git a/place.md b/place.md index ebf301a..0855e47 100644 --- a/place.md +++ b/place.md @@ -7,31 +7,89 @@ 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 +### capital -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`. +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. + +Possible values: + +- `2` +- `4` + +### name_en + +The English `name:en` value or local `name` if not available. ### 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). +description: | + Distinguish between continents, countries, states and + places like settlements or smaller entities. + Use this to separately style the different places and build + a text hierarchy according to their importance. + than cities). +values: +- continent +- country +- state +- settlement +- subregion +- other + +### 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). +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`. + +Possible values: + +- `1` +- `2` +- `3` +- `4` +- `5` +- `6` +- `7` +- `8` +- `9` +- `10` + +### subclass + +Use **subclass** to do more precise styling. +Original value of the +[`place`](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place) tag. + +Possible values: + +- `continent` +- `country` +- `state` +- `city` +- `town` +- `village` +- `hamlet` +- `suburb` +- `neighbourhood` +- `isolated_dwelling` ## Mapping