[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add OpenMapTiles vector map (PR #4042)

[Minh Nguyễn]

I’m not sure if this Wikidata discussion is really on-topic for this PR. MapTiler could take this issue off the table by disabling the Wikidata fallback on their end, but they’d have to determine whether they want to maintain a separate tileset for osm.org versus their other customers.

I also don’t think this will be the last style to be proposed that incorporates Wikidata in some fashion. In my opinion, there’s no strong need to prevent Wikidata labels from seeping into the website at all cost, as long as they only appear in a non-default style, and as long as they have some kind of special fallback styling or are combined with the OSM `name` as in https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/4042#issuecomment-1636888913.

> Names like “Leeuwarden station” are not intrinsically _wrong_, just unwanted and a hazard of using a project with different ends.

The English Wikipedia used to often omit “station” from railway station article titles, but they adopted this convention after [much discussion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_%28US_stations%29#Previous_discussions) about considerations that have little bearing on Wikidata label conventions. I’d contend that the Wikidata community would _prefer_ to move “station” from each label to the corresponding description.

Regardless, you have a point that Wikidata labels are not necessarily designed to be map labels. Technically they’re more like the `name`s of convenience that mappers often set on route relations in OSM. A more clear-cut example is that “Washington, D.C.”, is a fine Wikidata label, but the map label really should be just “Washington”. I’ve opened openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools#437 and onthegomap/planetiler#679 to have these tile generators prefer a specifically tagged “map label” statement over the more generic label.

> A better solution than resorting to Wikidata could be committing to fix weaknesses in our own language names.

Such as welcoming translations and transliterations that aren’t verifiable on the ground? Even more out of scope for this PR. 😉

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