Indeed. The Ordnance Survey name is often wrong too. My point was simply that both OS and the street signs put up by the council are fallible, so finding the right name isn't always a case of just copying what it says on the sign. That is one reason why I am reluctant to spend effort rechecking apostrophe questions - they are very difficult to nail down exactly! The other reason, of course, is that the presence or absence of an apostrophe makes little difference to OSM's usefulness to anyone, so the limited time we all have to go out mapping is better spent on things that have a higher return.
(I have in the past used local histories to help: if a road was named after a fellow called Peter then clearly Peter's Lane is right not Peters Lane. But not all cases can be resolved this way - and again, I'd rather spend time on something more useful and marginally less pedantic.) -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
