On 2020-07-11 07:47, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 10/07/2020 11:27, Mark Goodge wrote:
So, it seems that Fairfield [Road] isn't known to either OS or
Google. It is shown (in abbreviated form) on streetmap.co.uk, but at
that zoom level, in London, that's based on the Bartholomew A-Z maps
rather than OS.
For what it's worth, I also found it in a street atlas published by
Geographia. I don't know if that's the same company as A-Z. I also
don't know the date of the street atlas and neither do I know how old
a street atlas (non-OS) would have to be in order to be able to copy a
name from it.
It is just possible (sight unseen) that it is an Easter Egg. When I
headed the License Working Group we had an ironic case in Israel where a
contributor had asked local residents what an unsigned back street was
called and they told him they knew it as "Pearl Street", which he
promptly mapped. A local atlas company then got angry that we were
"copying their data" citing the their made-up Pearl Street as proof.
Fiction can become fact.
Mike
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