[OSM-talk] Rendering of Place Names in Mapnik

[Beej Jorgensen]

Brandon Aguirre wrote:
> US census has a well-organized system of divisions that might suit the
> need to create hierarchy within urban agglomerations and poly-centric
> regions. 

I like this--it's naming a region, so it doesn't seem so far-fetched
that it would be in the map.  As a renderer, I might render cities by
size until zoomed out enough, then ignore the cities and just render the
name of the region instead...

-Beej