Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/19/14 02:27 , schrieb Fernando Trebien: Oberallgäu is currently mapped as a political (not an administrative) boundary, so Sonthofen would be neither a capital, nor an administrative center of any relation. Correctly, its node has no capital=* or admin_level=* tags. http://www.openstreetma

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Tod Fitch
On May 18, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Andreas Goss wrote: > Am 5/18/14 14:43 , schrieb John Packer: >> Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and >> states? >> >> If not, we could keep it simple: >> * capital=yes for country capitals >> * state_capital=yes for state capitals (

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Fernando Trebien
Correction: renderers would not be interested in knowing what Rome is a capital of to render an icon and a label for it, but only what kind of capital it is (country capital, state capital, province capital, etc.). On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Fernando Trebien wrote: > These could be tagged a

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Fernando Trebien
These could be tagged as follows: - Italy's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=2 - Rome's node: capital=2 - Lazio's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=4 - Province of Rome's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=6 - City of Rome's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=8 And: - Abruzzo's admi

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Fernando Trebien
Oberallgäu is currently mapped as a political (not an administrative) boundary, so Sonthofen would be neither a capital, nor an administrative center of any relation. Correctly, its node has no capital=* or admin_level=* tags. Swabia, on the other hand, has its government seat in Augsburg, and its

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Frank Little
Sunday, May 18, 2014 2:43 PM John Pakker wrote: >Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and states? Italy has both regions and provinces. For example: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abruzzo (Region) Capital: L'Aquila - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Chiet

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Andreas Goss
Am 5/18/14 14:43 , schrieb John Packer: Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and states? If not, we could keep it simple: * capital=yes for country capitals * state_capital=yes for state capitals (already in use in some parts of America

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread Fernando Trebien
Following from TagInfo's link, if we adopt the most used practice as de facto, that would be capital=[lowest admin_level of respective regions], by a large margin. However, its most used value (capital=8) makes little sense (that represents the capital of an admin_level=8 area, which would be the c

Re: [Tagging] capital and state_capital: how are they being used in your country?

2014-05-18 Thread John Packer
Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and states? If not, we could keep it simple: * capital=yes for country capitals * state_capital=yes for state capitals (already in use in some parts of America ). PS: Tagin