# United Kingdom has some more cities at different levels **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 30, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452 "2019-09-30T23:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jessp](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@jessp](https://community.citystrides.com/u/jessp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452/21 "2019-10-08T06:46:25Z")
Hi Nodds, It looks like the cities in Scotland are at level 6: Edinburgh: [Relation: ‪City of Edinburgh‬ (‪1920901‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1920901) Glasgow: [Relation: ‪Glasgow City‬ (‪1906767‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1906767) Aberdeen: [Relation: ‪Aberdeen City‬ (‪1900654‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1900654) Dundee: [Relation: ‪Dundee City‬ (‪1921173‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1921173) Stirling: [Relation: ‪Stirling‬ (‪1905258‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1905258) Perth: [Relation: ‪Perth and Kinross‬ (‪1915429‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1915429) Inverness: I can’t find a city boundary for Inverness. The level 6 boundary surrounding it is for Highland, but it’s a big area [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1433249](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1433249) A lot of the towns and cities seem to be admin level 6 only, so large counties comprising multiple towns and villages. Falkirk: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1433249](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1433249) Dunfermline: the town is at [Way: ‪Dunfermline‬ (‪459086413‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/459086413) - however it’s a way, rather than a boundary in OSM - I’m not sure if that means it can’t be extracted with all its streets or not? I’m not sure, but I think that James is pulling the data for towns from within boundary lines, and the enclosing boundary for Dunfermline is the county of Fife at admin level 6 , which includes loads of other boundaries [Relation: ‪Fife‬ (‪1905841‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1905841) Hamilton: within South Lanarkshire county - [Relation: ‪South Lanarkshire‬ (‪1921241‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1921241) Glenrothes: also within Fife I’m inclined to think that the OSM town boundary data is a bit variable across Scotland, but I’m not sure enough of my OSM skills to be sure of that. ---
**Author:** ![jessp](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@jessp](https://community.citystrides.com/u/jessp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452/22 "2019-10-08T07:24:28Z")
Hi James, I’m wondering about Northern Ireland: your google docs list of countries says that you’ve used admin level 9 for Northern Ireland. I’m not sure what admin level 9 is extracting, but I’m not sure it’s right - I can’t actually find any Northern Irish towns, cities or wards by searching in CityStrides. Looking at OSM, it seems to be either admin level 10 boundaries or admin level 6 (large counties). I’d personally be inclined to prioritise the admin level 10 boundaries, because the level 6 ones are counties consisting of multiple towns/villages. Ireland (Republic of Ireland) does use admin level 9 (although Dublin is at level 7), but as far as I can see it doesn’t continue on into Northern Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![chriskeene](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/chriskeene/32/739_2.png) [@chriskeene](https://community.citystrides.com/u/chriskeene)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452/23 "2019-10-09T09:55:34Z")
Hi, apologies I’m not sure if this is still work in progress - and all the quirks need to be sorted before the UK is full ‘re-processed’ - but just wanted to flag Jessp’s post here (the one I’m replying to). From my purely selfish perspective would be great to have these level 6 cities added as and when it’s prudent to do so. 🙂 Cheers, Chris ---
**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452/24 "2019-10-22T23:24:20Z")
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**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/united-kingdom-has-some-more-cities-at-different-levels/18452/25 "2019-10-22T23:24:23Z")
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