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

[Colin Smale]

How is that similar circumstances? 

The current council (Medway Council) hasn't tried to get Rochester's
city status back.

--colin 

On 2016-02-15 16:32, paul.bivand wrote:

> 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 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> 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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