[OSM-talk] Google Maps comparison

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu Oct 11 16:14:25 BST 2007


In message <470E3ABE.4040907 at theseamans.net>
        graham at theseamans.net wrote:

> 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?

My council seem to have an aversion to apostrophes as well. Only the
really old (probably 40+ years) signs have them.

Tom

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