[Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

[Chris Hill]

On 12/02/16 11:51, Ian Caldwell wrote:
>
> On 11 February 2016 at 21:32, Michael Booth <boothym at gmail.com 
> <mailto:boothym at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     So my question is, how are we defining villages, towns and cities?
>     Only by population, or do we also take into account their
>     generally accepted status (whilst trying to be consistent across
>     the country)?
>
>
> In England towns will normally have a town council. Villages 
> will normally have a parish council. Only really a name difference see 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_council#England_and_Wales .
>
The whole situation is complex. There are places with 'city status' that 
really aren't for OSM's purposes, there are villages that become towns, 
villages bigger than many towns that are still villages, there are town 
council areas and civil parishes that have more than one settlement in 
them with separate names, some of which may ormay not be a hamlet. I 
have found a local example where a civil parish has declared itself to 
be a town, but both of the settlements in it are still firmly villages 
(see http://chris-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/when-is-town-not-town.html).

I love living in a country with such variety and I'm very pleased that 
OSM copes nicely with this variety (if the tag and wiki fiddlers just 
leave things alone).

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Cheers, Chris (chillly)