[OSM-talk] capitols

[David Earl]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> 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.

I think you are mixing up capital (the status of the city) and capitol 
(the typically domed building which is the administrative building for 
the state)