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Obscure bays shown at very low zoom levels due to their famous names
Baffin Bay is a 266,000-square-mile bay between Canada and Greenland that most people are used to seeing on a world-scale map. But we don’t show it on the map at low zoom levels. Instead, we show Baffin Bay – a much smaller, much less significant bay in Texas – at zoom level 4.
In fact, famous bays are appearing all over the map in places where there happens to be a bay that shares its name:
I didn’t know there were so many James Bays in the Great Lakes:
This issue might have the same root cause as #1024, but I opened a separate issue just in case.
Relates to https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/issues/1595
This should be fixed once we migrate to the tileset that includes the fix in openmaptiles/openmaptiles#1621 phanecak-maptiler/planetiler-openmaptiles#35.
This appears to be fixed now along with #1024.