Re: [Tagging] Why using place=city for legal status is a bad idea

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/28 : > Using tagged population figures as a substitute to guide renderers has > been suggested but it brings its own problems because people will expect > them to be more broadly useful and figures may either be out of date or it > may be unclear what area is being counted. We don't use p

Re: [Tagging] Why using place=city for legal status is a bad idea

2009-12-27 Thread Liz
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: > A sentence was recently added to the wiki > [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place] stating that the tag > place=city should be used for legally defined cities in countries where > such a status exists. This is superficially attractive but i

[Tagging] Why using place=city for legal status is a bad idea

2009-12-27 Thread wynndale
A sentence was recently added to the wiki [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place] stating that the tag place=city should be used for legally defined cities in countries where such a status exists. This is superficially attractive but it gives rise to problems. The key issue is that place nam