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<p>How is that similar circumstances?</p>
<p>The current council (Medway Council) hasn't tried to get Rochester's city status back.</p>
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<p>--colin</p>
<p>On 2016-02-15 16:32, paul.bivand wrote:</p>
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<div>In similar circumstances Rochester lost its city status on local authority merger because they didn't appoint charter trustees. </div>
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<div>The city status would have applied to the former boundary. The successor council has failed repeatedly at getting city status. </div>
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<div>Not that this bothers the centre for cities which counts lots of places as cities that legally aren't. </div>
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<div>Paul</div>
<br /><br />-------- Original message --------<br />From: Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl> <br />Date: 15/02/2016 14:15 (GMT+00:00) <br />To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org <br />Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city <br /><br />
<p>On 2016-02-15 13:42, Lester Caine wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;"> So Bath is also a<br /> city despite being below some arbitrary population limit.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Bath has around 100k inhabitants, not exactly a hamlet... But it doesn't have a city council, only Charter Trustees.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">If we know the<br /> population then it should be recorded, or a link to some other database<br /> that can provide a current and possibly historic population record?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">There is a well-established key population=* : <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:population">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:population</a></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Populations change every day of course, so they are never entirely accurate. But the wiki describes also population:date and source:population which are important to put the number in the right context, as is putting the tag on the right geometrical object which really should be a polygon (so either admin boundaries or landuse or place) and not a node.</div>
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