[OSM-talk] Place: city,town,village,hamlet,suburb

[Leszek Jakubowski]

On 1/3/07, Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:03 +0800, Mike Collinson wrote:
> > Someone has changed these definitions to base it on population fairly
> > recently (3 months?).  I'm fairly OK with the a city definition of
> > over 100,000, it seems pretty standard worldwide - though I recognize
> > that this may conflict with a local government type.
>
> Size doesn't seem to come into whether a place is a city or a town.
> Brechin [1] used to be a city, as it has a cathedral, but it only has a
> population of 7,200.  In fact, its football team is still called Brechin
> city.  The smallest city nowadays in Scotland is now Stirling [2], with
> a population of 41,243.  Paisley [3] prides itself as the largest town
> in Scotland, with 74,170 residents.
>
> There was a review of what is a city in Scotland in the 90s, but it is
> quite long-winded. [4]  There is a good article about cities in the UK
> here. [5]
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brechin
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley
> [4] http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/01/15950/15135
> [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom
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> Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>
>
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The question is if we want to display villages/towns/cities in the
government aspect (according to local law) or in some unified aspect
(population seems to be usually used on most maps). Laws may be very
different (take Finland and UK, AFAIR it takes 3 houses to make a town
in finland, and it's done automaticly while in UK you need a bill to
turn some houses into a town and only 3 houses probably wouldn't
qualify)

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Leszek Jakubowski
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