[OSM-talk] Non-capital cities in low-zoom Mapnik

Alexander Menk menk-you.should.remove.this.for.permanent.contact at mestrona.net
Sun Jul 11 17:20:32 BST 2010


Claudius wrote:
> I recently noticed (change must have been done in the past 2-3 weeks) 
> that low zoom Mapnik rendering at osm.org show more large cities per 
> country now that are not capitals: http://osm.org/go/zhyr--
> For example you see Hamburg and Frankfurt in Germany or Mashhad in Iran 
> or Ürümqi in China. These are not tagged as capital=yes and not all have 
> a population tag.
> 
> Can anyone tell what makes a city name show up on low zoom?

You might try having a look at the mapnik style here:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/

I think this is the one that is used on the official mapnik rendering on 
openstreetmap.org ?

Alexander





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