[OSM-talk] place=country/nation/state

[Robin Paulson]

i was looking for a tag to name new zealand, and it appears there are
no tags for places at this high level, at least in potlatch, or here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:place

is there any consensus on this?

has anyone made any attempt to distinguish between nation, state,
country, etc. in the context of osm?

wp has some info, but that left me somewhat bewildered

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country

would this be a better place to start?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

i think the 'place' key will need some expanding, or am i missing
something obvious?