On 05/06/15 15:15, SK53 wrote: > An example from my own experience: failure to differentiate between the > two Hayes in Greater London, cost a Spanish University involvement in a > multi-million Euro project. They arrived 3 hours late for start of > meeting by which time we had identified roles for everyone else. Hayes, > Middlesex & Hayes, Kent are still better identifiers than using London > Borough boundaries which are unlikely to be well known even by people > from the other side of London.
Having just worked through the same point on the Facebook places mistakes, it is clear that 'borough' is a primary key these days, so Hayes, Hillingdon and Hayes, Bromley are the CURRENT correct locations. Middlesex ceased to exist in 1965, when Hillingdon came into existence, while a large section of Kent was transferred to Greater London by the same 1963 act. But it is perhaps not surprising that 50 years on, people still hang on to the old names? Facebook recognises https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hayes-Bromley/112359098779648 and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hayes-Kent/257684507604168 but only https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hayes-Hillingdon/108434975843564. However none of them can be used as a 'place', for which only https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hayes-Slough-United-Kingdom/106517172716184 exists currently. So lets keep with the official designations if one must add county/borough information to every object ... which does seem a futile exercise? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
