Doesn't happen too often on OSM, unlike Wikipedia, but i've found myself in an
edit war with another user and I would like some opinions.
There are two railway stations in outer eastern Melbourne, Ferntree Gully and
Upper Ferntree Gully. These stations have in the past been named Fern Tree
Gully and Upper Fern Tree Gully.
I've been changing the names for a while now to the one word version because
it's the current public spelling of the station. It's used in newspapers, the
Metlink (official melbourne public transport) website, virtually any signage or
publication uses the one word version. I feel that this version is warranted on
OSM in terms of it being what the station is publicly know as at this point in
time, and to help with searching (and any future implementation of OSM data for
journey planning)
Another user has been changing the station names to the two word version. Their
explanation is that because the stations were officially named in the two word
fashion a while back. In recent times, the name changed back to the one word
version in all known publications and signage, but was not officially changed
back. (http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Ferntree-Gully and
http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Upper-Ferntree-Gully)
So any opinions as to how I should go about this?
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