Cities in the UK is a title awarded to a "place" by the Crown (formally). The status has to be awarded to some entity, which is usually an existing local government unit. Its boundaries are therefore inherited from the local government unit which holds the city status.
Not to be confused with "large towns"! Colin On 2016-01-27 11:52, Walter Nordmann wrote: > thx, Colin. > > But it can't be ok that there are no city boundaries in N-I any more. Ok, > counties may be historic now, but Cities? > > see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=belfast%2C ireland > > only result is a place-node. OMG > > Regards > walter > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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