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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 v1.45

Class	Subclass	Feature Count	Example Feature in OSM
local	neighborhood	502,342	n9012497816@1
local	suburb	133,416	n2873399056@4
local	borough	2,610	n615544381@10
local	block	155	n11374395639@1
settlement	hamlet	1,552,857	n5499237538@1
settlement	village	1,377,293	n3156038920@3
settlement	town	111,390	n1298133861@1
urban	municipality	6,722	n154076634@9
urban	city	4,235	n3012162160@38
urban	metropolis	854	n294107164@154
urban	megacity	343	n1973500311@155

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`