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

[Chris Hill]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Ed Avis wrote:
>   
>> Sure (if you accept that the street sign put up by the council is 
>> more authoritative than the Ordnance Survey's database, which 
>> actually I doubt).
>>     
>
> A quick glance at the local OS map shows me a street name that anyone in the
> town would know was wrong (Crawborough Road, should be simply Crawborough)
> and another that anyone with a rudimentary grasp of basic English would know
> was wrong ("Grammer School Hill" - clearly nigel molesworth is alive and
> well and working in Southampton). A few miles further afield there's a whole
> misspelt hamlet. I wouldn't trust the OS's names as far as I could throw
> Vanessa Lawrence.
>
> Of course, here in Charlbury we correct the street signs too. The council
> also initially put up a street sign saying "Crawborough Road". After
> application of black marker pen it no longer says that. :)
>   
I too have applied paint to an incorrect street sign erected as part of 
a council tidy-up (aka wasting money left in the budget before the 
year-end). I have also struggled with the council to persuade them that 
a replacement sign was wrong - they quoted the OS name, saying 'that 
must be right, it's Ordnance Survey'. I had to get the long-standing 
members of the local parish council to persuade them that was wrong and 
that the county council makes the decision on names not OS.

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Cheers, Chris
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