[OSM-talk] Weirdness in Oslo

[Andy Robinson]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>Sent: 10 June 2007 10:55 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Weirdness in Oslo
>
>
>[Håkon Enger]
>> I discovered on the Oslo map some very strange street names not
>> actually existing in Oslo, such at "Matahimik", "Malinis",
>> "Malumanay", "Masaya", etc., see:
>>
>>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=59.94993950444798&lon=10.789303
>76200304&zoom=15
>
>As the one annotating that part of the map, I can confirm that it did
>not look like that when I made it.
>
>I guess someone messed up somewhere else, and used IDs located in
>Oslo.  There have been rumors about applications clipping long lines
>and ending up with bogus segment IDs, but I hoped those times were
>behind us now.
>

See my post of yesterday on this one. 

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-June/014512.html 

The reason is known, although user tools for rectifying when they occur may
take a little longer.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk