[placenames] Shift minimal zoom level for place=hamlet and place=village

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: jekhor[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 4.59pm, Sunday, 12th July 2009]

In non-urban areas the map seems almost empty. Villages are rendered at zoom levels >= 12, and hamlets at levels >=14. But for Belarus, for example, reasonable minimal zoom level for villages can be 10-11 and for hamlets --- 12-13. Probably, this values will not be acceptable for other countries.

With current values, place=hamlet is almost unusable with renderers.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: steve8[at]mdx.ac.uk
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.17am, Sunday, 19th July 2009]

Can't render country specific filters at the moment. Will consider bringing in at one zoom earlier. Can you give a typical Belarus URL so I can test?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: jekhor[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.36am, Thursday, 30th July 2009]

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.0605&lon=26.8885&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF

At left part --- typical current Belarus state. At right --- my experimental change (hamlet->village) for small area. We, as OSM local group, want to keep right information in the database instead of changing it for getting more useful renders.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: komzpa[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.48am, Monday, 17th August 2009]

Is there any progress in resolving this bug?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: komzpa[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.10pm, Friday, 18th September 2009]

Replying to [comment:1 steve8[at]mdx.ac.uk]:

Can't render country specific filters at the moment. Will consider bringing in at one zoom earlier.

Is there any progress in bringing hamlets one zoom earlier? The map looks empty, when it has borders of hamlets but not their names.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: glebius[at]glebius.int.ru
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.25pm, Friday, 18th September 2009]

Just my two cents. This problem is actual for Russian territories, too.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: kolen
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.21am, Friday, 15th January 2010]

Yes, i think these villages on screnshot (OpenStreetMap_1263553735171.png) should have visible names at that zoom level (zoom=12), but their names appear only on 14 level, when village contours have very big size on screen.

These villages have no population in tags (just marked place=hamlet), populations are about 50-100.

I agree with ticket reporter that level 12-13 is good for hamlets.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.38pm, Sunday, 13th April 2014]

See openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto#472

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.14pm, Monday, 14th April 2014]

This is now also being discussed on Github:

openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto#472

Therefore, I will close the issue here.