<div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2011 11:59, Ed Avis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eda@waniasset.com">eda@waniasset.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I would suggest leaving place=city as the common everyday meaning of city, even<br>
though that is not strictly defined, and to introduce a new tag for the legal<br>
designation if that is felt to be useful.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with this, it allows people to make accurate UK maps if they want but avoids imposing a complicated new tag requirement on the default stylesheets and so other countries, and corresponds to everyday use.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As a former resident of both, I'd be quite happy to see St Albans change to "place=town" and Reading stay as "place=city".</div><div><br></div><div>At the other end of the scale we have a similar fudge with town / village / hamlet / suburb and the mysterious locality in big cities. A year or two ago I changed various values around south London to try and take a consistent approach basely simply on how they are rendered, to ensure places with big town centres are shown more prominently than those with small ones.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Tom</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a><br>