[Talk-GB] UK cities

[Tom Chance]

On 17 October 2011 11:59, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> I would suggest leaving place=city as the common everyday meaning of city,
> even
> though that is not strictly defined, and to introduce a new tag for the
> legal
> designation if that is felt to be useful.


I agree with this, it allows people to make accurate UK maps if they want
but avoids imposing a complicated new tag requirement on the default
stylesheets and so other countries, and corresponds to everyday use.

As a former resident of both, I'd be quite happy to see St Albans change to
"place=town" and Reading stay as "place=city".

At the other end of the scale we have a similar fudge with town / village /
hamlet / suburb and the mysterious locality in big cities. A year or two ago
I changed various values around south London to try and take a consistent
approach basely simply on how they are rendered, to ensure places with big
town centres are shown more prominently than those with small ones.

Regards,
Tom

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