There is a popular local restaurant which says on its website, "Many ingredients and spices are brought directly from the town of Enssaro in Ethiopia"
Curious, I looked for this town in OpenStreetMap. Nothing exists with that spelling, but a similar spelling "Insarro" gives a single node (http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1150893606) which is apparently just a "GeoDatabase" import (presumably GNS/GeoNames), which causes OSM (and Google etc.) to believe there is a "locality" there. However, there is no town there, nor even any settlements nearby. There is a village "Lemi" to the south, and other small villages to the north. This raises the general question, how to find local knowledge? The wiki page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ethiopia) contains mostly dead links and points to a deserted mailing list for Ethiopia; perhaps there is a more general East Africa, or Africa specific OSM list or forum which actually has people? Anyone that would know if a town of that name actually exists, and where it might be? Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
