On 12/02/2016 17:18, Colin Smale wrote:
Several attempts have been made to "correct" the tagging from city to village/town... each time it was changed back to city...
This, I think, illustrates why we really could do with a "legal_status" tag or similar for populated places. People, particularly those living in small (by population size) cities (in the legal sense) tend to be very protective of their city status, and dislike any attempt to override it. And saying that it's a global OSM policy isn't going to persuade them. Their argument (and to be fair, it's a very good argument) is that for a UK location, UK law takes precedence over the policy of a self-appointed voluntary group (which, ultimately, is all that OSM is). It's an argument that you won't win, short of banning people who disagree.
The only way to reconcile this, in the long run, is to have two separate tags for populated places, one describing the size according to global OSM guidelines, and one describing the legal status according to local law.
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