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Without this the maps may be overfilled with content and may look uglier.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.mapbox.com/guides/osm-and-mapbox/#mapbox-streets-and-openstreetmap:\r\n> Data for Mapbox Streets comes primarily from OpenStreetMap, with Natural Earth and our own tweaks used for some parts.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.mapbox.com/blog/2012-08-09-mapbox-streets-design-update/:\r\n> Previously our zoomed out views of the globe used city labels from Natural Earth, and we only started showing OpenStreetMap names after you zoomed in a bit. This worked well because Natural Earth has a much more granular ranking classification system aimed at helping cartographers choose the right sizes and density of labels for their maps. The Natural Earth place names, for the most part, are only in English. But we still want to take advantage of the many locales that OpenStreetMap contributors have put together, especially to show place names in their local language and writing system.\r\n>\r\n> To get the best of both worlds we joined Natural Earth’s scalerank information into our OpenStreetMap places table. This was not straight-forward ...\r\n\r\nThe open source of information regarding usage of Natural Earth data in vector tiles:\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/mapzen/vector-datasource\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/mapbox/natural-earth-tm2\r\n\r\nIt seems that https://maps.wikimedia.org/ #28 are not using the Natural Earth data at all ... right? Do we have any comments from them on this point?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geometalab/osm2vectortiles/issues/comments/151881736","html_url":"https://github.com/geometalab/osm2vectortiles/issues/46#issuecomment-151881736","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geometalab/osm2vectortiles/issues/46","id":151881736,"user":{"login":"lukasmartinelli","id":1288339,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1288339?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli","html_url":"https://github.com/lukasmartinelli","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lukasmartinelli/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-28T15:28:48Z","updated_at":"2015-10-28T15:28:48Z","body":"Quality of the labels is indeed quite noticable.\r\n\r\n**Mapbox OSM Bright**\r\n\r\n![mapbox_studio_classic](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1288339/10793282/781f9d30-7d90-11e5-90c8-f96d37d295c6.png)\r\n\r\n**Wikimedia**\r\n\r\n![wikimedia_maps_beta](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1288339/10793329/bcd50820-7d90-11e5-8d96-7d9d515742bc.png)\r\n\r\n"}}