[OSM-talk] capitols

[Ben Laenen]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > A renderer would need a hint of the importancy of "Texas" so it can
> > display it differently than, say, Washington.
>
> Two options:
>
> Define country_capital, regional_capital, local_capital and let each
> country work out what maps to where.
>
> Do like HTML and have capital1 as the biggest, capital2 for the next
> level, all the way to capital6 (which would probably never get
> used...).

Or: get the importance of the capital from the importance of what it's 
capital of. I guess Texas would have a tag "place=state" so you can use 
that info when you have "capital_of=Texas". The same with all other 
kinds of divisions. Sure, you need to query the database once more for 
that info, but that wouldn't be a problem, right? Having the duplicate 
info for each capital would be much worse in a database.

Greetings
Ben