[Talk-GB] OSM analysis - two wrong names?

Steve Doerr steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Feb 8 22:29:31 GMT 2011


On 08/02/2011 16:46, Tom Chance wrote:
> There is a road in Southwark with two incorrect names listed against it:
>
> Correct: Gibbons Rents
> Major error: Gibbons Rent
> Minor error: Gibbon's Rent

Strange. Back in 1875, they mapped it as Gibbon's Rents: 
<http://www.sdoerr.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/GibbonsRents1875__1_1056.jpg>.

Also, I wonder why Gibbons Rent for Gibbons Rents is a major error but 
Gibbon's Rent is minor? The latter has one more character of difference!

-- 
Steve




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