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<p>Agreed... </p>
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<p>FWIW I have been using council_style=city or council_style=town on admin boundary relations (mostly civil parishes) to indicate non-default situations.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>--colin</p>
<p>On 2016-02-15 12:08, Mark Goodge wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 12/02/2016 17:18, Colin Smale wrote:</span>
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<br /> 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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> Mark</div>
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