[Talk-us-massachusetts] Town "Southborough" renamed to "Southboro"?

[Andy Anderson]

I don’t think anyone will be confused by seeing “Southborough” when they are most familiar with “Southboro”. So the official usage should be maintained.

Unfortunately I’ve had to deal with this in place-name datasets for Massachusetts; to join them to MassGIS polygons, I’ve had to go through and edit all ten of these -borough names.

— Andy

> On Jun 14, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> Wikipedia says
> "Its name is often informally shortened to Southboro, a usage seen on many area signs and maps, though officially rejected by town ordinance."
> If it was changed it would be on the towns website
> 
> On 6/14/2019 10:37 AM, Yury Yatsynovich wrote:
>> Greetings!
>> Has the town of "Southborough" been recently renamed to "Southboro"?
>> The town's own website says "Southborough".
>> User Ben114 has been changing the names to "Southboro" in several changesets:
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297737 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297737>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297710 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297710>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691>
>> 
>> I've left a comment to Ben114's changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/70297691> and also sent him a private message.
>> Best,
>> --
>> Yury Yatsynovich
>> 
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