[Talk-GB] UK cities

[Ed Avis]

Ed Loach <ed at ...> writes:

>Someone in this thread suggested using another tag. I forget the suggestion but
>along the lines of designation=city or official=city or something. I briefly
>thought that this was a good solution, but after further consideration realised
>we would probably need to always add it to place nodes in the UK just to confirm
>that we have tagged something as what it actually is, and not as something
>different based on area or population.

Yeah, well that's useful as a way of tracking work in progress.  You could also
explicitly tag every large settlement that *doesn't* have city status.  The note
tag can cite the list of cities or date of Royal Charter or whatever.

Since it's unlikely that every other country will change its tagging of cities
to match ours, it doesn't hurt to tag things a bit more explicitly.  Then someone
using the map can know what the official cities are without having to remember
the rules about what place=city signifies in each individual country.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>