[OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

[Maarten Deen]

 On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:56:58 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:10 +0100, Steve Doerr wrote:
>> On 12/04/2011 11:47, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>>
>> > As to where I am:
>> >
>> 
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.414703&lon=76.692275&zoom=18&layers=M
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I see you have a place near you named 'JSS Naturapathy and Yoga
>> Hospital'. The usual word is 'naturopathy': 'naturapathy' sounds 
>> like
>> something quite different!
>
> same thing - that's the way they spelt it on the board. Anyway it is 
> now
> closed and sold (and when the new owner removes the board this will 
> go).
> Indian spelling (in our languages) is phonetic - this tends to 
> reflect
> in the English on signboards. There is the famous case of Hamilton
> bridge in Chennai. The Tamil rendering was Ambaltan bridge - which 
> over
> the course of time became Ambattan bridge and since 'Ambattan' in 
> Tamil
> is a barber, it is now known as Barbers bridge.
>
> Anyway you would be glad to know that google has spelt Naturopathy
> correctly ;-)

 Tag what is on the ground! If I could just remember where I went on a 
 business trip somewhere in North London 15 jears ago, I could tag a road 
 as "duel carriageway".
 I kid you not. It was written like that.

 Maarten