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 the council is entitled to call itself. This gives a way to tag the formal status orthogonally to the perceived importance (based on population or whatever) of the "place", except where the city status is held by Charter Trustees. Work-in-progress (comments welcome) on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries
Colin On 2014-02-25 14:46, David Earl wrote: > On 25 February 2014 13:39:50 GMT, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The question that needs to be answered is what "fact" does place=city >> represent in UK mapping. >> >> Your assertion is that it should be those places granted city status by >> the government. > No, it's never been that. I was saying it was unfortunate that it was done > the way it was, but cest la vie. But once upon a time the definition was much > more precise (but often ignored, indeed I did it myself with Ely), and is now > a rather wooly subjective definition. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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