Home / Data: Planet, Coastlines, Buildings, Admins, Roads / Attribution

Daylight Earth Table

Overview: Building, Infrastructure, Land, Landuse, Placename, POI, Road, Transit, Water

Theme: placename

Named locations from city to local level. Only point geometries.

Metadata keys

key name	description of values
`capital`	admin level of the boundary (if a capital city)
`population`	population number (if available)
`wikidata`	Wikidata ID (if present)

OSM tags included (filter)

tag name	required?	values included
`capital`	optional	`2`, `3`, `4`, `yes`
`place`	required	`city`, `town`, `village`, `hamlet`, `suburb`, `borough`, `quarter`, `neighborhood`, `neighbourhood`, `city_block`

Feature counts per class and subclass in Daylight v1.55

Class	Subclass	Feature Count	Example Feature in OSM
local	neighborhood	515,818	n8858714529@1
local	suburb	134,671	n9965192120@2
local	borough	2,723	n347678189@17
local	block	158	n11374395652@1
settlement	hamlet	1,576,745	n6211163282@2
settlement	village	1,393,174	n487919905@8
settlement	town	111,540	n415520658@4
urban	municipality	5,901	n151953236@20
urban	city	4,976	n551368421@31
urban	metropolis	854	n156801489@122
urban	megacity	343	n25248662@239

Zoom level recommendations for feature rendering

when	feature minzoom	feature maxzoom	style_rank
`subclass=megacity`	2	14	1
`subclass=metropolis`	3	14	2
`subclass=city`	3	14	3
`subclass=municipality`	3	14	4
`subclass=town`	4	14	3
`subclass=village`	12	16	4
`subclass=hamlet`	14	16	5
`subclass=borough` or `population` > 10,000	9	16	3
`subclass=suburb`	10	16	4
`subclass=neighborhood`	12	16	5
`subclass=block`	16	16	6
`capital` in (`country`, `region`)	2		based on `subclass`	based on `subclass`
`capital=state`	4	based on `subclass`	based on `subclass`