[OSM-talk] Google Maps comparison

[graham]

David Earl wrote:

> 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"
> 

Something my local council has been doing with new signs is 
systematically removing all the apostrophes. So names like "Monk's 
Close" become completely ambiguous: it's never possible to tell whether 
a final s is possessive or plural.  I guess this is just a result of 
illiteracy, but I've been copying it (even when I remember the real 
name) because I thought policy is to take the signs as showing the 
definitive name. Do others do the same?

Graham


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