[OSM-talk] OSM rewriting history : France is now part of Germany !

[John Smith]

2010/1/2 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> Look here:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.6238&lon=7.8259&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
>
> Mapnik is showing a "Germany" label in Strasbourg which is, as far as
> I know, still part of France ;-)
>
> It's not a node, so my guess is that label is coming from a huge
> polygon but, stilll, I don't know what can be a polygon named
> "Germany" and its centre is so far in the west...

Does anyone know of a good reason for the names of polygons to render?

Most of the time, there is a place node for where things should
render, otherwise you get the names of postcodes and names rendering
in the middle of no where.