"place" values occur in polygons as well as points. Only points currently shown

[SomeoneElseOSM]

Example:

gis=> select osm_id,name,landuse from planet_osm_polygon where place = 'suburb';
 182933675 | Seadale Gardens   |        (no name)

There is no corresponding point for this place way. However, many polygon places do have corresponding points:

gis=> select osm_id,name,landuse from planet_osm_polygon where place = 'suburb';
  68692986 | Nunthorpe         |        

gis=> select osm_id,name,landuse from planet_osm_point where name = 'Nunthorpe';
   osm_id   |   name    | landuse 
------------+-----------+---------
   27648220 | Nunthorpe |

"suburb" is just an example here; the same problem occurs (locally to Yorkshire) with everything from "town" downwards.

[SomeoneElseOSM]

It'd be straightforward to add a rendering for polygons in parallel with points ("piers" and "piers_area" is a simple bit of styling that does that for linear and area piers).

What would be much harder would be "only displaying a name for a polygon if there is no name displayed as a point for the same thing".

Note that it makes sense in some cases for places to have nodes as well as place polygons. The geographic centre of Sheffield is in a rural area, but the logical centre is near the town hall. Many seaside towns have a geographic centre in the sea.

[SomeoneElseOSM]

See also https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/103

Someone on IRC mentions https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/2816 which looks interesting...