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Description
The NE tables for country ISO and country TLC contain all the information needed to add "country" labels to the map, without a SPAM and abuse vector from OSM.
To switch we'd need to form label geometries from the label_x and label_y columns, and to wire up FCLASS POV (replacing place:XX).
We'd also need to setup remapping of the FCLASS_ISO, FCLASS_TLC, and other FCLASS_* values to valid Tilezen kinds.
See also:
Values:
Admin-0 country
(eg United States)- kind =
country
- kind_detail =
country
- kind =
Admin-0 dependency
(eg Puerto Rico)- kind =
country
- kind_detail =
dependency
- kind =
Admin-1 region
(eg England in United Kingdom)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
macroregion
- kind =
Admin-1 states provinces
(eg Martinique in France or Alaska in USA)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
region
- kind =
Admin-0 lease
(eg Baykonur leased to Russia)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
lease
- kind =
Admin-0 breakaway and disputed
(eg Golan Heights)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
breakaway_disputed
- kind =
Admin-0 claim area
(eg Crimea)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
claim_area
- kind =
Admin-0 indeterminant
(eg Spratly Islands)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
indeterminant
- kind =
Island group
(eg Midway Islands part of US Minor Outlying Islands dependency)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
island_group
- kind =
Island
(eg Antigua a component of Antigua and Barbuda country)- kind =
unrecognized
- kind_detail =
island
- kind =
Originally posted by @nvkelso in #2069 (review)