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[placenames] Don't render place=city capital=yes as a capital if it has admin_level=* and admin_level > 2 #2450

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 3 comments

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Reporter: avarab[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 4.50pm, Friday, 13th November 2009]

A lot of nodes around the world have place=city and capital=yes but are only regional capitals. This is especially prominent if the map is [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58&lon=53.9&zoom=4&layers=B000FTF panned over Russia at zoom 4].

The solution to this seems to be not to render these in any special way if they have admin_level=* and admin_level > 2.

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Author: Mikado
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.09am, Thursday, 10th December 2009]

I disagree with "not to render these in any special way" part. These cities are regional capitals and in the case of Russia that you've brought the regions are bigger than European coutries, and some of them even have governments and are ruled by presidents. So these cities are in fact capitals by their importance and they should be distinctive on the map.

Next thing is that federative structure of Russia has admin_level=3 division: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_districts_of_Russia federal districts] that, in turn, have their own capitals.

Generally, many admin_level divisions can have their administrative center (even large city districts) that might need to be tagged accordingly. Why not use capital+admin_level for that? Seems natural.

Perhaps capitals of different admin_level could be rendered differently?

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Author: Mateusz Konieczny
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.39am, Thursday, 3rd July 2014]

This style should not mask tagging errors.

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Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.39am, Saturday, 19th July 2014]

This issue is now being discussed on Github: gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto#739
Therefore, I will close the issue here.

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