[Talk-GB] Duff data on facebook

[Richard Symonds]

Hi Lester,

Facebook updates the places it has using crowdsourced information from
here: https://www.facebook.com/places/editor?ref=br_tf.

I'm afraid that's all I know...

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On 9 June 2014 08:48, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Having lived in Broadway - Worcestershire for many years now, it is
> getting somewhat irritating that Facebook will not allow me to tag this
> fact. They for some reason seem to think that Broadway is in
> Gloucestershire. Various attempts have been made to get things
> corrected, and pages have been created for 'Worcestershire', but even
> these are now being redirected to the 'correct' master according to
> Facebook. Can anybody throw ANY light on to why they insistthat their
> data is the correct view?
>
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