[Aachen]

The full file is some 700K without gzip compression

> all the data present in the complete version except for country borders and shorelines. This reduces [the size] by 200k

So about 29% is border/shore data, 71% is city names and locations

Imo a lot of cities could be dropped, especially when they're on top of each other (not visible until you've zoomed in so far to see a grey landmass and that city name) to make the shorelines more accurate

I'm also not sure how often a general location on a world map is needed. Wouldn't one more often want a low-KB map of the surrounding highways and transit lines one can use to reach the POI whose website you're currently looking at, for example? A version for every few km² on the planet could be built and you could have quite a lot of useful detail at a tenth of the size. Global low poly also has its purposes, like tracking the space station I guess, but it seems much rarer