[Talk-GB] Town v City (again, sorry!)

[Tom Hughes]

On 22/04/14 14:10, Ed Loach wrote:
>> There is no "might" about it. The wiki at least is explicit:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity
>
> But has also had the meaning pretty much redefined in 2013 from how
> I understood it to be before then.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:place%3Dcity&old
> id=812669

Well I don't think the old definition was particularly sensible since it 
pretty much invites getting very different results in different places.

Even the old rules had a caveat to try and stop local legal status being 
applied indiscriminately though, the "Should normally have a population 
of at least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby place=towns" rule.

Tom

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