[OSM-talk] Google Maps comparison

[Richard George]

David Earl wrote:

> Indeed. I have found numerous OSM errors while connecting to existing
> mapping in my area, and made many myself - obviously I've corrected the
> ones I have discovered. Often these are things like where a street name
> changes along its length, the second name is missing or the change is in
> the wrong place; but also place names - I corrected someone's Gamblingay
> to the correct Gamlingay (in two different contexts) earlier this week
> (don't mean to point fingers, I've made errors like this too).

Somewhere in the depths of my photo archive lies a shot of two
streetsigns on opposite sides of a road in Leytonstone. One proclaims it
"Quatermile Lane", the other "Quartermile Lane". (near
http://www.londontown.com/LondonInformation/Recreation/Lee_Valley_Cycle_Centre/3703/#MAP)

It's not just the mappers who get it wrong!

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