I don’t think it's as simple as that Matthijs. Its fine as an idea as a starter for 10 but we should be looking deeper and what's on the ground before making any decisions.
Cheers Andy -----Original Message----- From: Matthijs Melissen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 November 2014 19:30 To: Andy Robinson Cc: Richard Mann; Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Suburbs in London/Brum - big edits On 20 November 2014 08:51, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s not likely to be as simple as saying everywhere within a city > boundary is a suburb. A simple example is the town of Sutton Coldfield > which recently regained it Royal Town status, Its officially a town in > every traditional sense yet it is part of Birmingham though devolution > of powers back to the town from Birmingham is slowly (very slowly) > happening with time. There is no gap in the conurbation between what > is known as Sutton Coldfield and the rest of Birmingham. It’s not > considered a suburb of Birmingham as it’s a town destination in its > own right and locals who hail from it would always say they were from the > town and not the city of Birmingham. Why don't we follow post towns? In the Birmingham area, that would give us cities/town/villages Birmingham, Alcester, Bromsgrove, Halesowen, Cradley Heath, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Oldbury, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Studyley, Solihull, Henley-in-Arden, and Redditch. Places like Moseley, Kings Heath, and Bournbrook would become suburbs, which is quite reasonable in my opinion - these places are clearly part of the settlement Birmingham. In most other countries, deciding between village and suburb is a bit easier because villages have their own town sign (usually functioning as built-up area sign as well), while suburbs have no such sign. Post towns in such countries, at least in the Netherlands, are usually equivalent to signed towns. -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
