[Talk-GB] Town v City

[David Earl]

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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Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)

http://compton.nu/



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