[OSM-talk] capitols

[Abigail Brady]

> Adam Schreiber wrote:
> > On 6/12/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> >> 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)
> >
> > I understand the difference quite well.  In the original post by RTW,
> > he doesn't specify he wants to discuss buildings, so naturally I wrote
> > about the cities themselves.

Note the difference in spelling, though!  The original poster talked
about 'capitol', which only ever means a building, so I assumed this
was not a mis-spelling.

On 6/12/07, Robert T Wyatt <robert.wyatt at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Do you see obvious omissions in this mark-up (tags worth having here)?

Some assumptions are being made here which make this not really general enough.

Firstly, head towns aren't always called 'capitals' : here in England
the head town of a county might be called a 'county town', for
example.  Secondly, there are often more than two layers of hierachy
involved...  Any system of tagging national/state capitals really
ought to be capable of tagging US county seats, too.  Finally, some
places don't have unitary capitals: South Africa has three, for
example.

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Abi