In the USA, the definition varies from state to state. For example, Tennessee (where I live) does not have an official definition of town vs. city, and every town or city is contained within a county. In Virginia, towns are contained within counties, and subordinate to them; cities are independent of counties, even if geographically surrounded by them.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Simone Saviolo <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:43:36 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population 2010/5/27 sly (sylvain letuffe) <[email protected]>: > Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to > hopefully try to create a consistent database and not a renderer work around > font label positionning system -1, if it's exclusively population-based. The risk is that the US have tenths of cities and smaller countries - say, dunno, Uganda - get none. It's not a matter of getting the label to look cool. If you are looking for objective data, then tag the population. The definition of "city" and its differences from "town" varies from culture to culture, and from country to country. In the last few days there has been quite some discussion in talk-it about this, and there was consensus that the tagging of cities should somehow convey an idea about the urban texture of the country. > sly Regards, Simone _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
