osm-americana/openstreetmap-americana

Hamlet is not displayed

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#1,401 opened on May 15, 2026

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good first issue

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Description

The hamlet of Navarro, CA appears on OSM and on OpenMapTiles, but does not appear on Americana. It would be lovely if it did.

I think this is just a question of displaying the hamlet's name similarly to, for example, a village, but here's a clip of an old map anyway (Metsker, c. 1930):

Actually Navarro was larger in 1930 than it is today, so its neighbors Christine and Philo just down the road are better examples:

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Research direction
Find the rendering rule for village labels in the map style and add a similar rule for hamlet places.
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javascript
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