[OSM-talk] Google Maps comparison

[David Earl]

On 11/10/2007 11:34, Richard George wrote:
> 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!

A few years ago our council put up a big direction sign to my village 
"Fulbourne" but it is actually Fulbourn, and they were very embarrassed 
by the photo of it that appeared in the local paper. What the paper 
didn't know, though, was at the same time they put up a cycle route sign 
at the station directing people to "Foulbourn". It vanished extremely 
rapidly once they got to know about it!

It's interesting just how much names change too. The NPE maps frequently 
have spellings that I think were common at the time (rather than being 
mistakes) that are different from today's naming only 50 years later. 
"Long Stanton" near me has now morphed into "Longstanton"

David