2014-05-18 14:43 GMT+02:00 John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com>: > Honest question: are there capitals for something besides countries and > states?
Not sure what qualifies as a capital, but in Italy for instance there is no such thing like a "state". There are "regions" (Regione, admin_level 4) and provinces (Provincia, admin_level 6) which both have elected governments and "main places" that are similar to capitals. Also municipalities (admin_level 8) have "main places" similar to a capital on the country level. In Germany there are several levels of administration, some of them elected directly, others aren't, but also there the term is not "state" and they all of them are different to the states of the USA (in competence, etc.). I really wouldn't like to use the term "state_capital" in either Italy or Germany as it wouldn't be clear what it refers to. This tagging also creates problems with classic (i.e. postgres without hstore) rendering setups because you would have to waste an entire column this way, which is almost never used. Cheers, Martin
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