[Talk-ca] Misspelled British Columbia in Protected Areas data

[Adam Dunn]

I was importing the boundary for E.C. Manning Prov Park and Cascades
Recreation Area, which have so far been missing on OSM, when I realized that
British Columbia was spelled wrong in English. This misspelling is right in
the original shape file from
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/collection/detail.do?id=BA8D1149-7714-EC04-343B-6AFEC3BDA84A

This misspelling (u versus the second o) is a common mistake made when
confusing the spelling of the Canadian province with the spelling of the
South American country or the English versus French spellings. This appears
to affect every protected area imported from that file into OSM.

The country:
English: Colombia
French: Colombie

The province:
English: British Columbia (note the u)
French: Colombie-Britannique (note the o)

What GeoGratis has:
PROV_EN=British Colombia (note the incorrect o)
PROV_FR=Colombie-Britannique (this is correct)

Adam
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