[OSM-dev] Node and Area for one Feature

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Lennard<ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> John Smith wrote:
>> I did...
>>
>> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/attachment/ticket/2128/osm.xml.patch
>
> capital-city? Who came up with that, and could that please then be
> represented on the Place wiki entry? I notice that a recent addition
> also did place=metropolis.

You've misread the patch.

> Is place=capital-city just to show a city is the capital of an area?
> What's wrong with the capital=* key?

Nothing, that's what is being used. If you're interested in what tags
are being used then it's only the stuff in the <Filter> lines that you
should look at - the capital-city is just internal references within
the osm.xml file, not OSM tags.

Cheers,
Andy