I had a look at the Vicnames database which is about as official as it gets regarding registered geographic names in Victoria. According to Vicnames both stations were registered on 2 May 1966 as the one-word versions: Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully.
While I am loath to dispute the accuracy of a rail enthusiast web page which tend to be pretty thorough, I would place more faith in the official government name registry than a rail web page which says the name was changed in the 1970s, especially given the large amount of material that concurs with the "Ferntree" version. In any case, we should be mapping what's "on-the-ground" anyway, i.e. the station signage (unless this signage is contradictory in which case it may be required to use official records). Alex. > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:22:06 +1100 > From: Luke Woolley <lswool...@gmail.com> > To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute > Message-ID: <b9d23407-cde9-448c-a190-c12ba0008...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
