[Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -apostrophes

[Richard Moss]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0000
Kevin Peat wrote

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> My main problem is how to define what is authoritive as far as names go.
> As with most mappers I default to the road signs but as pointed out
> previously they are put up by council staff not known for their infallability.
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> All part of the fun.
> 
> Kevin

Quite.  In Cambridge, we have a road signed as Maids Causeway, Maid's Causeway, and Maids' Causeway.  Is any one of these more authoritative, just because it may be the preference of the current incumbent in The Guildhall, or Ordanance Survey?  I think not.  To my mind they are all valid.  Which does leave the quandry of what to put on OSM!  When I started, I did a few with name=... and then alt_name=... but more recently, I haven't bothered.

Richard