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I wish it didn't show Philadelphia as Trenton/Camden. That is so incorrect.

https://www.mapbox.com/map-feedback/

Mapbox does a great job of fixing things with out relying on users to do it for OSM! Just drop a pin and type out the problem and Mapbox's data team will likely fix the problem! These changes go right into OSM.

I'm not being facetious, don't take it the wrong way, but you could fix it. It's surprisingly easy.

I fixed a bunch of stuff wrong with my home town and found it pretty gratifying

Prominence is hard to do automatically, so it may not be trivial to get the system that renders the osm.org tiles to prefer Philadelphia (it does things like look at population, but that data is present for Philadelphia).

Very true!

I also took a look at it to figure out why it was showing up that way. They look like they are the same magnitude of thing (city) and they both have population. I'm wondering if it's actually showing Camden county?

No, it's not the county. I think what is happening is that the renderer decides there is no room to draw the Philadelphia label once the New Jersey label is in place.

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