Aerodrome labels

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the aerodrome. Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

class

Distinguish between more and less important aerodromes. Class is derived from the value of aerodrome and aerodrome:type tags.

Possible values:

• international
• public
• regional
• military
• private
• other

iata

3-character code issued by the IATA.

icao

4-letter code issued by the ICAO.

ele

Elevation (ele) in meters.

ele_ft

Elevation (ele) in feets.

Aeroway polygons based of OpenStreetMap aeroways. Airport buildings are contained in the building layer but all other airport related polygons can be found in the aeroway layer.

Fields

ref

The OSM ref tag of the runway/taxiway.

class

The original value of aeroway or area:aeroway tag.

Possible values:

• aerodrome
• heliport
• runway
• helipad
• taxiway
• apron
• gate

Contains administrative boundaries as linestrings and aboriginal lands as polygons. Until z4 Natural Earth data is used after which OSM boundaries (boundary=administrative) are present from z5 to z14 (also for maritime boundaries with admin_level <= 2 at z4). OSM data contains several admin_level but for most styles it makes sense to just style admin_level=2 and admin_level=4.

Fields

class

Use the class to differentiate between different kinds of boundaries. The class for boundary=aboriginal_lands is aboriginal_lands.

name

The OSM name value (area features only).

admin_level

OSM admin_level indicating the level of importance of this boundary. The admin_level corresponds to the lowest admin_level the line participates in. At low zoom levels the Natural Earth boundaries are mapped to the equivalent admin levels.

adm0_l

State name on the left of the border. For country boundaries only (admin_level = 2).

adm0_r

State name on the right of the border. For country boundaries only (admin_level = 2).

disputed

Mark with 1 if the border is disputed.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1

disputed_name

Field containing name of the disputed area (extracted from border relation in OSM, without spaces). For country boundaries only (admin_level = 2). Value examples from Asian OSM pbf extract

Possible values:

• AbuMusaIsland
• BaraHotiiValleys
• ChineseClaim
• Crimea
• Demchok
• Dokdo
• IndianClaim-North
• IndianClaimwesternKashmir
• PakistaniClaim
• SamduValleys
• TirpaniValleys

claimed_by

ISO2 code of country, which wants to see the boundary line. For country boundaries only (admin_level = 2).

maritime

Mark with 1 if it is a maritime border.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1

All OSM Buildings. All building tags are imported (building=*). Only buildings with tag location:underground are excluded.

Fields

render_height

An approximated height from levels and height of the building or building:part.

render_min_height

An approximated height from minimum levels or minimum height of the bottom of the building or building:part.

colour

Colour

hide_3d

If True, building (part) should not be rendered in 3D. Currently, building outlines are marked as hide_3d.

Everything in OpenStreetMap which contains a addr:housenumber tag useful for labelling housenumbers on a map. This adds significant size to z14. For buildings the centroid of the building is used as housenumber. Duplicates within a tile are dropped if they have the same street/block_number (records without name tag are prioritized for preservation).

Fields

housenumber

Value of the addr:housenumber tag. If there are multiple values separated by semi-colons, the first and last value separated by a dash.

Landcover is used to describe the physical material at the surface of the earth. At lower zoom levels this is from Natural Earth data for glaciers and ice shelves and at higher zoom levels the landcover is implied by OSM tags. The most common use case for this layer is to style wood (class=wood) and grass (class=grass) areas.

Fields

class

Use the class to assign natural colors for landcover.

Possible values:

• farmland
• ice
• wood
• rock
• grass
• wetland
• sand

subclass

Use subclass to do more precise styling. Original value of either the natural, landuse, leisure, or wetland tag.

Possible values:

• allotments
• bare_rock
• beach
• bog
• dune
• scrub
• shrubbery
• farm
• farmland
• fell
• forest
• garden
• glacier
• grass
• grassland
• golf_course
• heath
• mangrove
• marsh
• meadow
• orchard
• park
• plant_nursery
• recreation_ground
• reedbed
• saltern
• saltmarsh
• sand
• scree
• swamp
• tidalflat
• tundra
• village_green
• vineyard
• wet_meadow
• wetland
• wood

Landuse is used to describe use of land by humans. At lower zoom levels this is from Natural Earth data for residential (urban) areas and at higher zoom levels mostly OSM landuse tags.

Fields

class

Use the class to assign special colors to areas. Original value of either the landuse, amenity, leisure, tourism, place or waterway tag.

Possible values:

• railway
• cemetery
• military
• residential
• commercial
• industrial
• garages
• retail
• bus_station
• school
• university
• kindergarten
• college
• library
• hospital
• stadium
• pitch
• playground
• track
• theme_park
• zoo
• suburb
• quarter
• neighbourhood
• dam
• quarry

Natural peaks

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the peak. Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en.

class

Use the class to differentiate between natural objects.

Possible values:

• peak
• volcano
• saddle
• ridge
• cliff
• arete

ele

Elevation (ele) in meters.

ele_ft

Elevation (ele) in feet.

customary_ft

Value 1 for peaks in location where feet is used as customary unit (USA).

Possible values:

• 1
• None

rank

Rank of the peak within one tile (starting at 1 that is the most important peak).

The park layer in OpenMapTiles contains natural and protected areas from OpenStreetMap, such as parks tagged with boundary=national_park, boundary=protected_area, or leisure=nature_reserve.

Fields

class

Use the class to differentiate between different kinds of features in the parks layer. The class for boundary=protected_area parks is the lower-case of the protection_title value with blanks replaced by _. national_park is the class of protection_title=National Park and boundary=national_park. nature_reserve is the class of protection_title=Nature Reserve and leisure=nature_reserve. The class for other protection_title values is similarly assigned.

name

The OSM name value of the park (point features only). Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name (point features only). This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en (point features only). This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

rank

Rank of the park within one tile, starting at 1 that is the most important park (point features only).

The place layer consists out of countries, states, cities and islands. Apart from the roads this is also one of the more important layers to create a beautiful map. We suggest you use different font styles and sizes to create a text hierarchy.

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the place. Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

capital

The capital field marks the admin_level of the boundary the place is a capital of.

Possible values:

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

class

Original value of the place tag. Distinguish between continents, countries, states, islands and places like settlements or smaller entities. Use class to separately style the different places and build a text hierarchy according to their importance. For places derived from boundaries, the original value of the boundary tag.

Possible values:

• continent
• country
• state
• province
• city
• town
• village
• hamlet
• borough
• suburb
• quarter
• neighbourhood
• isolated_dwelling
• island
• aboriginal_lands

iso_a2

Two-letter country code ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. Available only for class=country. Original value of the country_code_iso3166_1_alpha_2 tag.

rank

Countries, states and the most important cities all have a rank to boost their importance on the map. The rank field for countries and states ranges from 1 to 6 while the rank field for cities ranges from 1 to 10 for the most important cities and continues from 10 serially based on the local importance of the city (derived from population and city class). You can use the rank to limit density of labels or improve the text hierarchy. The rank value is a combination of the Natural Earth scalerank, labelrank and datarank values for countries and states and for cities consists out of a shifted Natural Earth scalerank combined with a local rank within a grid for cities that do not have a Natural Earth scalerank.

Points of interests containing a of a variety of OpenStreetMap tags. Mostly contains amenities, sport, shop and tourist POIs.

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the POI. Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

class

More general classes of POIs. If there is no more general class for the subclass this field will contain the same value as subclass. But for example for schools you only need to style the class school to filter the subclasses school and kindergarten. Or use the class shop to style all shops.

Possible values:

• shop
• office
• town_hall
• golf
• fast_food
• park
• bus
• railway
• aerialway
• entrance
• campsite
• laundry
• grocery
• library
• college
• lodging
• ice_cream
• post
• cafe
• school
• alcohol_shop
• bar
• harbor
• car
• hospital
• cemetery
• attraction
• beer
• music
• stadium
• art_gallery
• clothing_store
• swimming
• castle
• atm
• fuel

subclass

Original value of either the amenity, barrier, historic, information, landuse, leisure, railway, shop, sport, station, religion, tourism, aerialway, building, highway, office or waterway tag. Use this to do more precise styling.

rank

The POIs are ranked ascending according to their importance within a grid. The rank value shows the local relative importance of a POI within it’s cell in the grid. This can be used to reduce label density at z14. Since all POIs already need to be contained at z14 you can use less than rank=10 epxression to limit POIs. At some point like z17 you can show all POIs.

agg_stop

Experimental feature! Indicates main platform of public transport stops (buses, trams, and subways). Grouping of platforms is implemented using uic_ref tag that is not used worldwide.

Possible values:

• 1

level

Original value of level tag.

layer

Original value of layer tag.

indoor

Original value of indoor tag.

Possible values:

• 1

transportation contains roads, railways, aerial ways, and shipping lines. This layer is directly derived from the OSM road hierarchy. At lower zoom levels major highways from Natural Earth are used. It contains all roads from motorways to primary, secondary and tertiary roads to residential roads and foot paths. Styling the roads is the most essential part of the map. The transportation layer also contains polygons for features like plazas.

Fields

class

Distinguish between more and less important roads or railways and roads under construction. Class is derived from the value of the highway, construction, railway, aerialway, route tag (for shipping ways), busway, or man_made.

Possible values:

• motorway
• trunk
• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• minor
• path
• service
• track
• raceway
• busway
• bus_guideway
• ferry
• motorway_construction
• trunk_construction
• primary_construction
• secondary_construction
• tertiary_construction
• minor_construction
• path_construction
• service_construction
• track_construction
• raceway_construction

subclass

Distinguish more specific classes of railway and path: Subclass is value of the railway, highway (for paths), or public_transport (for platforms) tag.

Possible values:

• rail
• narrow_gauge
• preserved
• funicular
• subway
• light_rail
• monorail
• tram
• pedestrian
• path
• footway
• cycleway
• steps
• bridleway
• corridor
• platform
• ferry (DEPRECATED - use class)

network

The network type derived mainly from network tag of the road. See more info about us-*, ca-transcanada, gb-*, or ie-*.

brunnel

Mark whether way is a tunnel or bridge.

Possible values:

• bridge
• tunnel
• ford

oneway

Mark with 1 whether way is a oneway in the direction of the way, with -1 whether way is a oneway in the opposite direction of the way or not a oneway with 0.

Possible values:

• 1
• -1

ramp

Mark with 1 whether way is a ramp (link or steps) or not with 0.

Possible values:

• 1

service

Original value of the service tag.

Possible values:

• spur
• yard
• siding
• crossover
• driveway
• alley
• parking_aisle

access

Access restrictions on this road. Supported values of the access tag are no and private, which resolve to no.

Possible values:

• False

toll

Whether this is a toll road, based on the toll tag.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1

expressway

Whether this is an expressway, based on the expressway tag.

Possible values:

• 1

layer

Original value of the layer tag.

level

Experimental feature! Filled only for steps and footways. Original value of the level tag.

indoor

Experimental feature! Filled only for steps and footways. Original value of the indoor tag.

Possible values:

• 1

bicycle

Original value of the bicycle tag (highways only).

foot

Original value of the foot tag (highways only).

horse

Original value of the horse tag (highways only).

mtb_scale

Original value of the mtb:scale tag (highways only).

surface

Values of surface tag devided into 2 groups paved (paved, asphalt, cobblestone, concrete, concrete:lanes, concrete:plates, metal, paving_stones, sett, unhewn_cobblestone, wood) and unpaved (unpaved, compacted, dirt, earth, fine_gravel, grass, grass_paver, gravel, gravel_turf, ground, ice, mud, pebblestone, salt, sand, snow, woodchips).

Possible values:

• paved
• unpaved

This is the layer for labelling the highways. Only highways that are named name=* and are long enough to place text upon appear. The OSM roads are stitched together if they contain the same name to have better label placement than having many small linestrings. For motorways you should use the ref field to label them while for other roads you should use name.

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the highway.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

ref

The OSM ref tag of the motorway or its network.

ref_length

Length of the ref field. Useful for having a shield icon as background for labeling motorways.

network

The network type derived mainly from network tag of the road. See more info about us-*, ca-transcanada, or gb-*.

Possible values:

• us-interstate
• us-highway
• us-state
• ca-transcanada
• ca-provincial-arterial
• ca-provincial
• gb-motorway
• gb-trunk
• gb-primary
• ie-motorway
• ie-national
• ie-regional
• road (default)

class

Distinguish between more and less important roads and roads under construction.

Possible values:

• motorway
• trunk
• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• minor
• service
• track
• path
• raceway
• motorway_construction
• trunk_construction
• primary_construction
• secondary_construction
• tertiary_construction
• minor_construction
• service_construction
• track_construction
• path_construction
• raceway_construction
• rail
• transit
• motorway_junction

subclass

Distinguish more specific classes of path: Subclass is value of the highway (for paths), and “junction” for motorway junctions.

Possible values:

• pedestrian
• path
• footway
• cycleway
• steps
• bridleway
• corridor
• platform
• junction

brunnel

Mark whether way is a bridge, a tunnel or a ford.

Possible values:

• bridge
• tunnel
• ford

level

Experimental feature! Filled only for steps and footways. Original value of level tag.

layer

Experimental feature! Filled only for steps and footways. Original value of layer tag.

indoor

Experimental feature! Filled only for steps and footways. Original value of indoor tag.

Possible values:

• 1

route_1_network

1st route concurrency network.

route_1_ref

1st route concurrency ref.

route_1_name

1st route concurrency name.

route_1_colour

1st route concurrency colour.

route_2_network

2nd route concurrency network.

route_2_ref

2nd route concurrency ref.

route_2_name

2nd route concurrency name.

route_2_colour

2nd route concurrency colour.

route_3_network

3rd route concurrency network.

route_3_ref

3rd route concurrency ref.

route_3_name

3rd route concurrency name.

route_3_colour

3rd route concurrency colour.

route_4_network

4th route concurrency network.

route_4_ref

4th route concurrency ref.

route_4_name

4th route concurrency name.

route_4_colour

4th route concurrency colour.

route_5_network

5th route concurrency network.

route_5_ref

5th route concurrency ref.

route_5_name

5th route concurrency name.

route_5_colour

5th route concurrency colour.

route_6_network

6th route concurrency network.

route_6_ref

6th route concurrency ref.

route_6_name

6th route concurrency name.

route_6_colour

6th route concurrency colour.

Water polygons representing oceans and lakes. Covered watered areas are excluded (covered=yes). On low zoom levels all water originates from Natural Earth. To get a more correct display of the south pole you should also style the covering ice shelves over the water. On higher zoom levels water polygons from OpenStreetMapData are used. The polygons are split into many smaller polygons to improve rendering performance. This however can lead to less rendering options in clients since these boundaries show up. So you might not be able to use border styling for ocean water features.

Fields

id

From zoom 6 are taken OSM IDs. Up to zoom 5 there are used Natural Earth lakes, where are propagated the OSM IDs insted of Natural Earth IDs. For smaller area then planet, NE lakes keep their Natural Earth IDs.

class

All water polygons from OpenStreetMapData have the class ocean. The water-covered areas of flowing water bodies with the water=river, water=canal, water=stream, water=ditch, or water=drain tags are classified as river. Wet and dry docks tagged waterway=dock are classified as a dock. Various minor waterbodies are classified as a pond. Swimming pools tagged leisure=swimming_pool are classified as a swimming_pool All other water bodies are classified as lake.

Possible values:

• dock
• river
• pond
• lake
• ocean
• swimming_pool

intermittent

Mark with 1 if it is an intermittent water polygon.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1

brunnel

Identifies the type of crossing as either a bridge or a tunnel.

Possible values:

• bridge
• tunnel

Lake center lines for labelling lake bodies. This is based of the osm-lakelines project which derives nice centerlines from OSM water bodies. Only the most important lakes contain labels.

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the water body. Language-specific values are in name:xx.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

class

Distinguish between lake, ocean, bay, strait, and sea.

Possible values:

• lake
• bay
• strait
• sea
• ocean

intermittent

Mark with 1 if it is an intermittent lake.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1

OpenStreetMap waterways for higher zoom levels (z9 and more) and Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines for low zoom levels (z3 - z8). Linestrings without a name or which are too short are filtered out at low zoom levels. Till z11 there is river class only, in z12 there is also canal generated, starting z13 there is no generalization according to class field applied. Waterways do not have a subclass field.

Fields

name

The OSM name value of the waterway. Language-specific values are in name:xx. The name field may be empty for NaturalEarth data or at lower zoom levels.

name_en

English name name:en if available, otherwise name. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:en.

name_de

German name name:de if available, otherwise name or name:en. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release in favor of name:de.

class

The original value of the waterway tag.

Possible values:

• stream
• river
• canal
• drain
• ditch

brunnel

Mark whether way is a tunnel or bridge.

Possible values:

• bridge
• tunnel

intermittent

Mark with 1 if it is an intermittent waterway.

Possible values:

• 0
• 1