[OSM-talk] capitols

[Adam Schreiber]

On 6/12/07, Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Robert T Wyatt <robert.wyatt at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > I'm not seeing anything in map features or proposed features or icons
> > that indicate a state or national capitol. Am I overlooking it? thx,rtw
>
> You aren't missing anything.  For the Houses of Parliament in London;
> I just tagged them as building=parliament.  Suggest just tagging the
> Capitol buildings building=capitol.

Except the buildings themselves aren't the capitol, the city is.  This
probably needs a capitol=yes attribute for places.  The designated
city/village/borough etc. would then become the capitol of the lowest
item in the is_in tag given a hierarchical order.

For instance:
name=Pickens
place=city
capitol=yes
is_in=Pickens County, South Carolina, United States of America

name=Columbia
place=city
capitol=yes
is_in=South Carolina, United States of America

The only place I can think of in the USA is Washington, DC where
Washington is a city in the District of Columbia and is the capitol of
the USA.  Does this trouble occur elsewhere? (Vatican City perhaps?)
I do realize that is_in isn't necessarily given in a hierarchical
manner everywhere, but could that be proposed as well?

Cheers,
Adam