On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably > _shouldn't_ be in OSM. Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I > used to live in Derbyshire is according to OS StreetView composed of 5 > different "villages". It's actually either 1 or 2, depending on who you > ask. It's probably less of an issue in London (less space for > extraneous names), though.
I have noticed a few cases, especially in areas of London I know very well, where OS shows an archaic name which isn't really in general use. This gets a bit tricky because there's not really a way of signalling to other mappers that a place name isn't in use based on local knowledge. Obviously local knowledge is best here but we probably don't have mappers with good local knowledge of all the various corners of London, and I'm pretty sure that there are areas of London where the area names have never been adequately mapped (which is why I started this thread). So I'm not sure how best to solve that conundrum. Cheers, -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
