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 <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/state_capital#map>). PS: Taginfo just released some new functionality, which allow us to compare the different uses of the different keys "capital" around the world: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/state_capital/capital_city/capital_level/is_capital/capital(note that as demonstrated before, around 90% of the current values of the key capital=* seems to be incorrectly tagged). I'm not saying we should use the others, just though it was interesting. 2014-05-16 7:07 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > > 2014-05-16 12:00 GMT+02:00 Andreas Goss <andi...@t-online.de>: > > For what apart from Rendering will this "importance" be usefull? >> >> And I still think it would be missleading and will lead to confusion. >> Someone who wants to look up all state capitals might just check all nodes >> for capital=4 (because it's the logical thing to do) not knowing that it >> can only be done correctly by also looking at relations. >> > > > > I don't see this as a problem. Looking for all state capitals is not > within the scope of the capital tag, as you will miss those which are also > capitals for bigger entities like countries. You might have to look up all > capital=1/2/3/4/yes places and remove those which aren't state (level 4) > capitals. Yes, rendering is probably the most important use case for this > tag, why should that be a problem? > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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