On 27/03/2020 15:30, Lester Caine wrote:
I would also add that having been FIGHTING the Facebook Places naming
process,
For the avoidance of doubt, I don't believe that what Facebook (and
Instagram, and WhatsApp, et al) "places" are directly related to OSM.
At the DWG* we get a huge amount of complaints about Facebook locations
being buggy; people send the complaints to us because they hear that
Facebook use OSM data. Upon investigation most or all of these turn out
to be perfectly OK in OSM. Sometimes what some people call a place
doesn't match what other people call it (see
https://web.archive.org/web/20190225133138/http://ma3t.co.uk/euanmills/euanmills/tifd.html
et al) but generally OSM is what the complainer was expecting but
Facebook not.
Best Regards,
Andy
* OSM's Data Working Group, who get all sorts of complaints about OSM
Data, and also more varied complaints from people, such as those
surprised when they search for things in Instagram it shows their
location, and other information from local contacts that they have
chosen to share with Facebook.
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