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From: "Dave F." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:42 PM
Subject: [Talk-GB] Street name disagreement - whose right or wrong?
Hi
I have a street in my area whose name is being contest by another mapper.
To prevent it reducing to a tit-for-tat retaliations I'd thought it best
to get it adjudicated here.
I think it's X because it signed on the ground & in OS Locator as such.
He thinks it's Y because "Royal Mail PAF and Land Registry say Y"
AFAIK the PAF isn't publicly accessible so can't be verified (maybe he's a
postman?).
I didn't know that the Land Registry had such information.
I've contacted him asking for verification.
Are OSM allowed to use data from these organizations?
Who do you think is correct?
Any other information or comments welcome?
Can you ask any long term residents of the street? Simply because a
roadsign says it's a certain name doesn't necesraily mean its right.
There's one road locally which when I started mapping was "Bully's Hill" on
the roadsign, and a year ago the signed chnnged to "Bulleys Hill". Clearly
both signs cant be correct
There's another local road which I had always known as Carpenters Road, the
farm which is along the road is Carpenters Fram, the latest road sign
however says "Carpenter Road". I checked with someone who had lived in the
village 60 years and they confirmed its name as Carpenters Road.
Moral: dont always trust the signs
David
Cheers
Dave F.
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