<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don’t think anyone will be confused by seeing “Southborough” when they are most familiar with “Southboro”. So the official usage should be maintained.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately I’ve had to deal with this in place-name datasets for Massachusetts; to join them to MassGIS polygons, I’ve had to go through and edit all ten of these -borough names.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Andy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 14, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts <<a href="mailto:talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org" class="">talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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signs and maps, though officially rejected by town ordinance."</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/14/2019 10:37 AM, Yury Yatsynovich
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Has the town of "Southborough" been recently renamed to
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<div class="">The town's own website says "Southborough".</div>
User Ben114 has been changing the names to "Southboro" in
several changesets:<br class="">
<div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297737" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297737</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297710" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297710</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691</a></div>
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<div class="">I've left a comment to Ben114's changeset <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691</a>
and also sent him a private message.</div>
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