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

[Lester Caine]

On 15/02/16 11:08, Mark Goodge wrote:
> The only way to reconcile this, in the long run, is to have two separate
> tags for populated places, one describing the size according to global
> OSM guidelines, and one describing the legal status according to local law.

Since there is a 'Should normally' in the wiki entry for place=city,
then the population is NOT a hard and fast rule. It was left woolly
specifically because the legal status should take priority, so St.
David's has been a city since 1994 having had that status restored by
the request of the Queen. city up until 1888 and as a prominent
cathedral location that is the well established rule. So Bath is also a
city despite being below some arbitrary population limit. If we know the
population then it should be recorded, or a link to some other database
that can provide a current and possibly historic population record?

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