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

[Colin Smale]

On 2014-04-24 11:57, SomeoneElse wrote: 

> 2) We need some way to represent ceremonial city, if it's not to be "place=city" Sure, if you want uk_legal_status=city then go ahead and add that.

"designation=city" perhaps? Isn't that what the "designation" tag is
supposed to be for?

As long as this is about qualifying a "place" (node or area). When it
comes to administrative boundaries, it's different, as a "city council"
is nothing special - it's just a honorific title that some councils
(county, district or parish) may have acquired. The "designation" tag is
already in use for admin boundaries to indicate the formal type of
council (county? parish? london borough?) so I would suggest a simple
"city=yes" or (better, IMHO) council_style=city to make it clear that it
is only a name, as far as local government is concerned. 

I am working on a consolidated overview of tagging for UK admin
boundaries which includes this provision: 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries 

In some places the city status is not held by any council, but by
charter trustees (Bath, for example). The boundaries may or may not
correspond to extant administrative boundaries. 

Colin 

 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20140424/cc6379f3/attachment.html>