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

[Colin Smale]

On 2016-02-15 13:42, Lester Caine wrote:

> So Bath is also a
> city despite being below some arbitrary population limit.

Bath has around 100k inhabitants, not exactly a hamlet... But it doesn't
have a city council, only Charter Trustees. 

> 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?

There is a well-established key population=* :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:population 

Populations change every day of course, so they are never entirely
accurate. But the wiki describes also population:date and
source:population which are important to put the number in the right
context, as is putting the tag on the right geometrical object which
really should be a polygon (so either admin boundaries or landuse or
place) and not a node. 

  
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