[Tagging] Admin_level=2 for non-independent countries

[Joachim]

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.smale at 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