[Tagging] Populated settlement classification

[Colin Smale]

On 2019-09-07 19:04, Paul Allen wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 17:37, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-09-07 18:17, Paul Allen wrote: 
> 
> Some 
> large towns have taken to calling themselves cities even though they do not have a royal 
> charter awarding them that status. 
> 
> Got any examples of this?

My crappy memory doesn't remember the names, or even where I read of it.
 But I did dig 
up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_City and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City,_London 
even though they don't ring any bells as being ones I read about. 
There's also Rochester, 
which used to be a city but no longer is because the unitary authority
cocked up.  And St 
David's, which was a city, then wasn't a city, and is back to being a
city again, even though 
it has a population of 2,000 and is really just a small town by OSM
standards and by 
just about anybody else's standards. 

Aah, I thought you were implying that some places were wilfully
misrepresenting themselves for "marketing" reasons! 

There are also modern cities like Brighton and Hove which aren't a
single place but an agglomeration.
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