Using the importance=* tag did not really help much, so I switched to the same approach I've used in higher zoom to "fill" empty areas with place names. Basically, there is one layer with names I absolutely want (capitals), then the other stuff (markers, icons, names) are placed, then a final layer of "filling" is done with a relatively high text-min-distance value to adjust the density.
I've also added a test on the number of tags on the place=* node. Only the ones with at least 20 tags are selected. New-York is now there, along with LA, San-Francisco and San Jose, San Diego, Seattle, Las Vegas... and Zurich too ;) I still consider this as a hack to temporarily solve a tagging/data related problem. It is better for zoom 5, not tuned yet for zoom 6. -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France
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