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

[Richard Welty]

On 5/15/14 8:57 AM, Pieren wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Matthijs Melissen
> <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
>
>> Some more strange cases:
> We could create an additional role (e.g. "capital") when the
> "admin_centre" is not the capital (and only in this case to avoid
> unnecessary duplicates).
some definitions to keep in mind:

capital - a city serving as a seat of government

capitol - building in which a state legislature meets

these are US usage, not sure if British usage is different.

http://www.50states.com/tools/use.htm#.U3S811hdX4o

richard

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