I added a population tag to some of the dubious ones (primarily the larger
non-cities) to enable them to be identified by the renderer.

Rochester/Chatham is complicated (not least by the fact that Rochester
managed to lose its City status by accident).


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Andy Street <a...@street.me.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:13:59 +0000
> Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If anything, I'd like to amend the UK use of place=city to come up
> > with a use of the tag that fits in with global OSM usage. We can add a
> > tag for 'ceremonial status' or similar to indicate they are a 'city'
> > according to the weird UK rules but aren't actually cities in the main
> > meaning of the word. So long as it's all agreed and documented, I'd be
> > in favour of a change.
>
> +1
>
> I see similarities between this and admin areas where I've tagged
> admin_level=* to denote place within a global hierarchy then
> supplemented it with designation=unitary_authority etc. to record
> regional intricacies.
>
> Perhaps we could use designation=GB:city in this instance?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Andy Street
>
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