[Tagging] Capital=* and admin_level on cities

Joachim noreply at freedom-x.de
Tue Oct 4 16:30:12 UTC 2016


Wikipedia[1] tends to agree with you. So we need another role=capital
which just means capital plus administrative centre and capital only
when in addition role admin_centre is used? For lower entities (below
admin_level=4) the word "capital" seems to be not used much, so
admin_centre should suffice here like it is now.

There are other arrangements described on the Wikipedia page, mostly
of different parliament seat and judicial seat. Would they need to be
modelled as well? There should not be stuffed everything into the
country border relations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_centre
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_city#Unusual_capital_city_arrangements

2016-10-03 19:43 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:
> On 2016-10-03 18:23, Joachim wrote:
>
> Wouldn't look right for the Netherlands. The capital is Amsterdam, but the
> seat of government (admin_centre) is The Hague. So capital and admin_centre
> are different things here.
>
>
>
> I see no problems giving both the role admin_centre. The naming of the
> role shouldn't be taken too literally.
>
>
> Sorry, I don't agree with this. Admin centre is admin centre, capital is
> capital. Often they coincide, sometimes they don't. Amsterdam is not the
> admin centre of the country, it is also not even the provincial capital
> (that is Haarlem BTW). It is just the admin centre of its own municipality.
>
> See also:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_city#Capitals_that_are_not_the_seat_of_government
>
> //colin
>
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