On 1/21/11 5:26 PM, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 10/01/2011 14:03, John Smith wrote:
On 10 January 2011 23:52, Steve Bennett wrote:
Definitely with a k. I actually tagged this sport recently, I took a
Did I really need to say british english? cart with a k is american
english.
The whole concept
On 10/01/2011 14:03, John Smith wrote:
On 10 January 2011 23:52, Steve Bennett wrote:
Definitely with a k. I actually tagged this sport recently, I took a
Did I really need to say british english? cart with a k is american english.
The whole concept is American, including the spelling. 'Kar
On 22 January 2011 07:53, Steve Doerr wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 00:48, John Smith wrote:
>
>> the
>> centre of the boundary and the centre of the boundary will rarely be
>> the same thing
>
> ?
centre of the boundary and the centre of the town
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On 09/01/2011 00:48, John Smith wrote:
the
centre of the boundary and the centre of the boundary will rarely be
the same thing
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As well as the other anomalies noted in this thread, there is the county
of Surrey in the United Kingdom, whose capital (i.e. 'county town') is,
thanks to boundary changes, no longer actually in Surrey!
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2011/1/21 Peter Wendorff :
> Hi.
> As long as the DDR existed, Berlin was the capital of Germany, but not the
> seat of government.
> The government moved to Bonn meanwhile due to practical reasons (hard to
> move to and from Western Berlin across the DDR etc.).
yes, Berlin wasn't even part of th
Hi.
As long as the DDR existed, Berlin was the capital of Germany, but not
the seat of government.
The government moved to Bonn meanwhile due to practical reasons (hard to
move to and from Western Berlin across the DDR etc.).
regards
Peter
Am 21.01.2011 15:59, schrieb j...@jfeldredge.com:
I
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> If you come up with a solution it would be nice to have a possibility
> to record this not only on a national level but also for lower
> administrative levels, e.g. for the government of a German Bundesland
> (admin_level 4), i.e. fo
2011/1/21
> I was a little surprised by this, until I looked up the definition of
> capital given in Wikipedia (primary city, as opposed to seat of government).
> In American usage, the capital of a nation or sub-national region is its
> seat of government, whether or not that is the primary ci
I was a little surprised by this, until I looked up the definition of capital
given in Wikipedia (primary city, as opposed to seat of government). In
American usage, the capital of a nation or sub-national region is its seat of
government, whether or not that is the primary city in terms of pop
2011/1/21 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer :
> 2011/1/21 Lennard :
>
>> And what about the Seat of Government. Do we record that anywhere? This
>> isn't always located in the country capital either.
If you come up with a solution it would be nice to have a possibility
to record this not only on a national lev
2011/1/21 Lennard :
> And what about the Seat of Government. Do we record that anywhere? This
> isn't always located in the country capital either.
AFAIK we don't. How did you tag "Den Haag"? I think we should indeed
have a method to tag this.
cheers,
Martin
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> OK, but where is the problem? You would tag Amsterdam with capital=yes
> and Haarlem with capital=4. If you wanted to know which is the capital
No problem, actually. I should have answered Simone directly, when he asked:
>> I see a potential problem. Let's say there's a large admin level (say,
2011/1/21 Lennard :
>
>> I'd say that this problem seems really "potential" and I don't expect
>> this to happen at all, but who knows. You could check this by looking
>
> Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands (admin_level=2), but not of
> the Province of Noord-Holland in which it is situated
2011/1/21 Pieren :
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> wrote:
>>
>> Regional capitals are mostly not tagged at all with a capital key. I
>> suggest to keep capital=yes for national capitals and use e.g.
>> capital=4 for the capital of an admin_level=4 area. This would keep
>>
> I'd say that this problem seems really "potential" and I don't expect
> this to happen at all, but who knows. You could check this by looking
Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands (admin_level=2), but not of
the Province of Noord-Holland in which it is situated. That's nearby
Haarlem (adm
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regional capitals are mostly not tagged at all with a capital key. I
> suggest to keep capital=yes for national capitals and use e.g.
> capital=4 for the capital of an admin_level=4 area. This would keep
> con
2011/1/21 Simone Saviolo :
> 2011/1/21 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> I see a potential problem. Let's say there's a large admin level (say, the
> country) whose capital is *not* the capital of a lesser admin level it is
> in. I'm not sure this actually happens anywhere, as usually, for example,
> Rome is
2011/1/21 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> By looking at the wiki and taginfo, as well as some data as Cardiff /
> Wales, it doesn't seem clear which way capitals should be tagged / are
> currently tagged.
> There is proposals to use capital=yes together with admin_level on a
> node, there is the idea to ta
As there were no more comments recently, voting is open now:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/historic:civilization#Voting
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By looking at the wiki and taginfo, as well as some data as Cardiff /
Wales, it doesn't seem clear which way capitals should be tagged / are
currently tagged.
There is proposals to use capital=yes together with admin_level on a
node, there is the idea to tag capital=2 (according to admin_level but
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