So regarding my question you say the implicit admin_level of a capital should mirror the boundaries. A difference between "independent" and non-independent should be developed there if needed.
2016-10-08 14:32 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > Instead of labelling the city itself with capital=yes, consider adding the > city to the admin boundary with a role of "capital". Like that a city can > easily be capital of multiple administrative units (it might be a national > capital and a provincial capital at the same time) and it stays distinct > from the administrative centre. > > A city cannot simply be a "capital" based on its own characteristics like > population or area. Being a capital is a role of a place in the context of a > territory, so putting this on the relation for the territory seems the most > logical place to me. > > As the capital and administrative centre are mostly coincident, I would > suggest that adding the "capital" role would only be required for the > exceptional cases. If no capital is specified explicitly, I would assume > that the admin_centre also has that role. > > //colin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
