On 25/02/14 09:47, Philip Barnes wrote:
City status is an honour granted by The Queen, not something that can be
claimed by size or population. Like trunk roads, its quirky and like
trunk roads I see it as the way we do things here.
You are correct that a City in the UK is defined that way.
That does not necessarily mean that place=city in OSM is defined in that
way, any more than every two man village in the US that decides to call
itself a city is tagged place=city in OSM.
The actual definition for place=city given in the wiki is:
"Use the place=city tag to identify the largest settlement or
settlements within a territory, including national, state and
provincial capitals, and other major conurbations.
To be honest I'm not sure what we have traditionally done in terms of
mapping place=city in the UK but as a general point you should beware of
attempting to interpret tags literally against local legalites.
Tom
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