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<p>Can I mention the City of Brighton and Hove? The city status is held by the unitary authority (Brighton and Hove City Council). Neither Brighton nor Hove is a city.</p>
<p>//colin</p>
<p>On 2016-02-12 15:23, Chris Hill wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 12/02/16 11:51, Ian Caldwell wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /> On 11 February 2016 at 21:32, Michael Booth <<a href="mailto:boothym@gmail.com">boothym@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:boothym@gmail.com">boothym@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities?</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> Only by population, or do we also take into account their</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> generally accepted status (whilst trying to be consistent across</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> the country)?</span><br /><br /><br /> In England towns will normally have a town council. Villages will normally have a parish council. Only really a name difference see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_council#England_and_Wales">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_council#England_and_Wales</a> .<br /><br /></blockquote>
The whole situation is complex. There are places with 'city status' that really aren't for OSM's purposes, there are villages that become towns, villages bigger than many towns that are still villages, there are town council areas and civil parishes that have more than one settlement in them with separate names, some of which may ormay not be a hamlet. I have found a local example where a civil parish has declared itself to be a town, but both of the settlements in it are still firmly villages (see <a href="http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/when-is-town-not-town.html">http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/when-is-town-not-town.html</a>).<br /><br /> I love living in a country with such variety and I'm very pleased that OSM copes nicely with this variety (if the tag and wiki fiddlers just leave things alone).</div>
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