On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:56, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably > > _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I > > used to live in Derbyshire is according to OS StreetView composed of 5 > > different "villages". It's actually either 1 or 2, depending on who you > > ask. It's probably less of an issue in London (less space for > > extraneous names), though. > > I have noticed a few cases, especially in areas of London I know very > well, where OS shows an archaic name which isn't really in general > use. This gets a bit tricky because there's not really a way of > signalling to other mappers that a place name isn't in use based on > local knowledge. Obviously local knowledge is best here but we > probably don't have mappers with good local knowledge of all the > various corners of London, and I'm pretty sure that there are areas of > London where the area names have never been adequately mapped (which > is why I started this thread). So I'm not sure how best to solve that > conundrum. > > Out of date names might show up less in addr:? Of course then you need full addresses rather than street, number and "leave it to the algo".
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