[Talk-GB] Town v City

[Tom Hughes]

On 25/02/14 13:07, Philip Barnes wrote:

> That is absolutely my point, we should tag the facts and leave it to
> different renderers to then use those facts in the way that best suits
> their users.

The question that needs to be answered is what "fact" does place=city 
represent in UK mapping.

Your assertion is that it should be those places granted city status by 
the government. Other people are suggesting alternatives.

There is a long history of tags in OSM not meaning quite what a natural 
british english interpretation would suggest, because meaning ideally 
needs to be similar across the globe so we need to find a local way in 
each area to define what a tag means so that meaning does not deviate 
too much across the globe.

Tom

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