On 15/02/16 11:08, Mark Goodge wrote: > The only way to reconcile this, in the long run, is to have two separate > tags for populated places, one describing the size according to global > OSM guidelines, and one describing the legal status according to local law.
Since there is a 'Should normally' in the wiki entry for place=city, then the population is NOT a hard and fast rule. It was left woolly specifically because the legal status should take priority, so St. David's has been a city since 1994 having had that status restored by the request of the Queen. city up until 1888 and as a prominent cathedral location that is the well established rule. So Bath is also a city despite being below some arbitrary population limit. If we know the population then it should be recorded, or a link to some other database that can provide a current and possibly historic population record? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb