I still think it's needed to create a proper page for this key. I find it hard to see a proposal page with such a long discussion as some kind of standard. Em 13/05/2014 12:13, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <[email protected]> escreveu:
> > 2014-05-13 16:54 GMT+02:00 John Packer <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Martin, I was the one that marked the proposal for the key capital as >> cancelled (maybe abandoned was a better status). >> I did this because I saw it's use was a complete mess in tag info, and as >> far as I knew, admin_centre had the same purpose, so I just wanted to help >> to clean the wiki from it's countless inconsistencies and abandoned >> proposals. >> >> If the use of the key capital is well established, please at least create >> a page Key:capital explaining it's use. >> > > You should be extra careful when marking docu as obsolete, I suggest > always asking here before doing so. AFAIK that page is the only > documentation for the capital key, and the capital-key is the mostly used > and standard method to mark a country capital (there is also the newer > method of adding the place with the admin centre role to the country's > administrative relation, but commonly the renderers use the capital key). > > By looking at taginfo I don't agree that this tag looks messed up: > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/capital#values > there are very few values that don't fit into the definition(s) on the > capital wiki page, "county" is the one with the most utilizations, but it's > only 10 of them. You will have lots of strange values for all osm keys but > as long as their number (for each value) is below 10 there is really no > need to worry. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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