On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:05 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: > In general, the world considers a city to be a "very large town". In > the UK (and possibly other places) the concept of "city" has specific > connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the Crown (a > cathedral is not a prerequisite, nor is it a guarantee of city status! > ) That is very true, although I had assumed that on recieving a city charter a church is normally made a cathedral, but I guess that is my Leicestershire background getting in the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester#The_early_20th_century
> > A similar system in the Netherlands dictates that The Hague is > technically only a village as it has never formally been granted the > right to call itself a town, let alone a city. In the UK, doesn't town status infer holding a charter to hold a market? So I guess a similar situation. > > The Post Town (as used by Royal Mail) is one way of defining a > location, but there may be cases where Royal Mail disagrees with local > government and/or common usage. Very true, and it really grates hearing Donington Park refered to as being in Derbyshire. Posttown does seem a useful tag if trying to extract information to send a letter. However for in terms of location the next layer would probably be county. But for government purposes then local authority would also be useful. Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
