I have come across, and corrected a number of mis-tagged UK towns and cities,
which had clearly been mis-tagged to suit the renderer.
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
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.
On 25 February 2014 09:47, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk 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.
Is that actually documented
It is obviously documented on wikipedia, but also one of those basic bits of
general knowledge you pick up over the years, was probably taught it at school.
It is always in the news at the time of jubilees that new cities are created.
Phil (trigpoint)
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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
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
place=city, contrary to various differing cultural uses of the word
City, used to be somewhere over a certain population, 100K IIRC.
However, it appears the definition on the wiki has been substantially
relaxed, as has town. Nevertheless it is still defined by size, albeit
woolly: The largest
That is absolutely my point, we should tag the facts and leave it to different
renderers to then use those facts in the way that best suits their users.
We should not deliberately mis-tag to make Milton Keynes bigger than St Albans
on mapnick, mapnick is just one of many renderers, a fact often
On 25/02/14 13:07, Philip Barnes wrote:
That is absolutely my point, we should tag the facts and leave it to
different renderers to then use those facts in the way that best suits
their users.
The question that needs to be answered is what fact does place=city
represent in UK mapping.
Your
On 25/02/14 13:07, Philip Barnes wrote:
That is absolutely my point, we should tag the facts and leave it to
different renderers to then use those facts in the way that best suits
their users.
The question that needs to be answered is what fact does place=city
represent in UK
Exeter Arms close to bus station across the Derwent, 19:30.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup
Hope to see some of you there!
Jerry
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Formal UK City status may be held by a council (can be
borough/district/unitary/parish) or by Charter Trustees. I am working on
some kind of normalisation in the tagging for administrative areas and I
am proposing to reflect the formal city/town status in the
council_style=* tag, to show what
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