> From: William Rieck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 9:10 AM > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name? > > Hi Paul, I was following your message until this statement, where > I got confused. Are you saying the city of Langley is not a city? > What do you mean by "in British English"? > > > That's all fairly simple, but the place node is more complicated. > > Langley is not a "city" in British English, but a "town".
British English, as opposed to Canadian English or American English. OSM uses British English Using a simpler example, Burnaby does not meet the British English definition of a city, but Vancouver does. Burnaby is a town. An incorporated area is not necessarily a city. http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=wn&Query=city includes two definitions of "city": n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center] 2: an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; "the city raised the tax rate" OSM is closer to the first definition. Historically a city was the see of a bishop, but that no longer holds. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
