Wikipedia[1] tends to agree with you. So we need another role=capital which just means capital plus administrative centre and capital only when in addition role admin_centre is used? For lower entities (below admin_level=4) the word "capital" seems to be not used much, so admin_centre should suffice here like it is now.
There are other arrangements described on the Wikipedia page, mostly of different parliament seat and judicial seat. Would they need to be modelled as well? There should not be stuffed everything into the country border relations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_centre [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_city#Unusual_capital_city_arrangements 2016-10-03 19:43 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > On 2016-10-03 18:23, Joachim wrote: > > Wouldn't look right for the Netherlands. The capital is Amsterdam, but the > seat of government (admin_centre) is The Hague. So capital and admin_centre > are different things here. > > > > I see no problems giving both the role admin_centre. The naming of the > role shouldn't be taken too literally. > > > Sorry, I don't agree with this. Admin centre is admin centre, capital is > capital. Often they coincide, sometimes they don't. Amsterdam is not the > admin centre of the country, it is also not even the provincial capital > (that is Haarlem BTW). It is just the admin centre of its own municipality. > > See also: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_city#Capitals_that_are_not_the_seat_of_government > > //colin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging