Agreed... FWIW I have been using council_style=city or council_style=town on admin boundary relations (mostly civil parishes) to indicate non-default situations.
This works where the status is held by a local authority, but where Charter Trustees are involved I don't have a solution in mind but Bath might be a good example to look at. --colin On 2016-02-15 12:08, Mark Goodge wrote: > 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. > > Mark
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