Dear all, The newest version of openstreetmap-carto, the default rendering used on openstreetmap.org, changes the way country and state labels are rendered. Country and state labels are no longer rendered from the place=country and place=state nodes, but are instead rendered from the boundary=admin relations, using admin_level=2 for country labels and admin_level=4 for state labels. This way, the size of the area can be used to determine whether a label should be rendered (preventing for example Isle of Man to be rendered at zoom level 4).
The version has just rolled out, and changes will show up over the next few days. In order for state and country labels to be displayed correctly, mappers should make sure that: - Country and state polygons are not broken (i.e. they must be a full uninterrupted loop); - Country and state polygons must have appropriate name and ref tags. I already noticed a couple of places where the name and ref tag on the place node differs from the name and ref tag on the boundary multipolygon. Please make sure that the data is correct in both places. Lesotho seems to be the only country with state nodes but without state boundaries. It would be great if someone were able to import state boundaries for this country. Croatia and Senegal currently use admin_level=3 instead of admin_level=4 for state boundaries. Using admin_level=4 seems to be the international standard, which we followed in the stylesheet, so these countries might want to consider changing their tagging. Kind regards, Matthijs _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
