Rome vs Vatican State about basemaps HOT 5 OPEN

@nvkelso thoughts on how to resolve this without hardcoding an exception, based on NE data?

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General question: Are hardcoded exceptions actually that bad of an idea?

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Let's look in the style? major cities should be preferred over minor countries and minor cities. The min_zoom should already be setup for that in the data, but MapLibre's layer based label collisions sometimes necessitates splitting the rendering into different draw layers?

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This is a common problem in almost every Mapbox-GL derived style (screenshot from Maptiler below). Only Mapbox themselves seem to get it right.

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Are osm identifiers stable enough to use them as ids in an exceptions list? I think for stuff like this there is no other way than making exception lists...

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