Correction: renderers would not be interested in knowing what Rome is a capital of to render an icon and a label for it, but only what kind of capital it is (country capital, state capital, province capital, etc.).
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Fernando Trebien <fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > These could be tagged as follows: > - Italy's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=2 > - Rome's node: capital=2 > - Lazio's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=4 > - Province of Rome's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=6 > - City of Rome's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=8 > > And: > - Abruzzo's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=4 > - L'Aquila's node: capital=4 > - Commune of L'Aquila's admin boundary relation: admin_level=6 > - City of L'Aquila's admin. boundary relation: admin_level=8 > > How should one render the labels for Rome and L'Aquila? With > predefined styles for a country capital and for a "state" capital, > respectively. (There may be many levels of "capitals".) Then renderers > would read that information from Rome's and L'Aquila's nodes' > capital=* tag. > > What is Rome a capital of? You'd have to look up: > - all relations that refer to Rome's node with a role "admin_centre" > which have no "capital" role > - all relations that refer to Rome's node with a role "capital" > > (Or we can keep it simple and define the "capital" role and ignore the > "admin_centre" role altogether when answering this question.) > > Who would be interested in knowing what Rome is a capital of? Besides > renderers (which often render a larger icon and larger fonts for > capitals), probably only an atlas app or something similar. This > information makes little difference for routing or geocoding. > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Frank Little <frank...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> Sunday, May 18, 2014 2:43 PM John Pakker wrote: >> >>>Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and >>> states? >> >> Italy has both regions and provinces. >> >> For example: >> >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abruzzo (Region) Capital: L'Aquila >> >> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Chieti (Province) Capital: Chieti >> >> (and the main town of a comune is technically a capital too). >> >> So L'Aquila is the capital of the Region and its own Province too. >> >> Rome is the capital of Italy, of the Region of Lazio, and the Province of >> Rome. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > > -- > Fernando Trebien > +55 (51) 9962-5409 > > "Nullius in verba." -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
