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<p>Cities in the UK is a title awarded to a "place" by the Crown (formally). The status has to be awarded to some entity, which is usually an existing local government unit. Its boundaries are therefore inherited from the local government unit which holds the city status.</p>
<p>Not to be confused with "large towns"!</p>
<p>Colin</p>
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<p>On 2016-01-27 11:52, Walter Nordmann wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">thx, Colin.</span><br /><br /> But it can't be ok that there are no city boundaries in N-I any more. Ok, counties may be historic now, but Cities?<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">see: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=belfast%2C">https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=belfast%2C</a> ireland</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">only result is a place-node. OMG</span><br /><br /> Regards<br /> walter<br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Talk-GB mailing list</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a></span></div>
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