diff --git a/tagmaps/__main__.py b/tagmaps/__main__.py
index 8fefbb4..597e939 100644
--- a/tagmaps/__main__.py
+++ b/tagmaps/__main__.py
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ def main():
             cluster_types.append(EMOJI)
         if cfg.cluster_locations:
             cluster_types.append(LOCATIONS)
+
         # initialize clusterers
         clusterer_list = list()
         for cls_type in cluster_types:
diff --git a/tagmaps/classes/cluster.py b/tagmaps/classes/cluster.py
index 3024fce..c7fd453 100644
--- a/tagmaps/classes/cluster.py
+++ b/tagmaps/classes/cluster.py
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ def get_cluster_shapes(self):
         saturation_exclude_count = 0
         shapes_and_meta = list()
         tnum = 0
+        topitem_area = None
         if self.local_saturation_check:
             # calculate total area of Top1-Tag
             # for 80% saturation check for lower level tags
diff --git a/tagmaps/config/config.py b/tagmaps/config/config.py
index 41d719a..a0980f3 100644
--- a/tagmaps/config/config.py
+++ b/tagmaps/config/config.py
@@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ def parse_args(self):
                             "(no filtering based on tags or emoji)"
                             )
         parser.add_argument("-c",
-                            "--localSaturationCheck",
+                            "--disableLocalSaturationCheck",
                             action="store_true",
-                            default=False,
-                            help="Will exclude any tags that "
+                            default=True,
+                            help="Will not exclude any tags that "
                             "are (over)used at above a certain percentage "
                             "of locations in processing extent. Since this "
                             "will usually improve legibility of tag maps, it "
-                            "is enabled by default."
+                            "is enabled by default. Disable with this flag."
                             )
         parser.add_argument("-j",
                             "--tokenizeJapanese",
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ def parse_args(self):
             self.topic_modeling = args.topicModeling
         if args.writeCleanedData:
             self.write_cleaned_data = args.writeCleanedData
-        if args.localSaturationCheck:
-            self.local_saturation_check = args.localSaturationCheck
+        if args.disableLocalSaturationCheck:
+            self.local_saturation_check = False
         if args.shapefileIntersect:
             self.shapefile_intersect = args.shapefileIntersect
         if args.shapefilePath: