[OSM-talk] capitols

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Wed Jun 13 12:47:43 BST 2007


Ben Laenen wrote:
> 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.

so what do you do if there happens to be a municipality of texas and a
galactical imperium called texas? this is way too ambigious,

spaetz




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