Feature request: land labels

[superrache]

Thanks for this work, shortbread fulfills its mission of being generalist and minimalist. I don't know if it's the right place for feature request, so let me know if there are some discussion elsewhere.

It would be very useful if the land layer had a name field (and translations) or if there was an additional land_labels point layer. This would allow displaying names for parks, cemeteries, forests, industrial/retail areas, ... which are important landmarks on a map, without overloading tile size too much. Also, a field way_area would allow to display only large areas depending on zoom level.

[almccon]

Yes, labels for parks is one of the features I really would like to see!

[pnorman]

The land layer is polygons so this would need to be an additional land_labels layer

How's this for a proposal

Properties

Field name	Type	Description
kind	string	kind of feature (see land layer for a list of values)
way_area	float	area in square meter (Mercator Projection)
name	string	value of OSM name=* tag (with other languages however we decide to in 1.1)

Are there any features in the land layer we wouldn't want to include in a land_labels layer?