2008/7/28 Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: > > > > > The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only > > > a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And > there > > > is no way to mark capitals. > > > > There is always population=200000, etc which can help you to find the > biggest ones. And what prevents us from adding capital=yes to those cities? > I don't think that the tagging is insufficient today. OK there might be a > more subjective "important" city tag, and there are problems with suburbs > and all that. But I don't see that point as a big problem. > > I find 207 000 places in Europe and only 57 000 population tags. > Actually better than I thought. Probably from some import. But from the > 1044 cities only 297 have such a tag. So there still is some work to do > before this can be used in the renderer. > > I can't find a "capital" tag on MapFeatures. And its not enough anyway, > because we need the different levels. Not very difficult to do, but > somebody has to write that up and people have to tag the data before it > can be rendered. > > So, yes, in the grand scheme of things, this problem is a small problem, > but for the labelling of place names some more work has to be done on it. >
One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy, however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would almost certainly be a no no. Can we use information from wikipedia? For example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals If I can use that, then I can find all the capitals, and just tag them.
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