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

[paul.bivand]

Bath is still a city with Charter Trustees.
In similar circumstances Rochester lost its city status on local authority merger because they didn't appoint charter trustees. 
The city status would have applied to the former boundary. The successor council has failed repeatedly at getting city status. 
Not that this bothers the centre for cities which counts lots of places as cities that legally  aren't.  
Paul

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From: Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> 
Date: 15/02/2016  14:15  (GMT+00:00) 
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org 
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] place=village/town/city 


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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