[OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

Fri Mar 9 16:54:00 GMT 2012

Jaime wrote: "My guess is that, at least in my area, they are mixing OSM geometries and names with -very poor- labels from other source."

... Which would mean that (mixing and matching data in an area) they should be contributing back to OSM, eih? Would that poor old local name of Madrid be old_alt_loc_name=[whatever] in OSM terms??

-Jaakko

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jaime Crespo <jynus at jynus.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 17:47:00 
To: Iván Sánchez Ortega<ivan at sanchezortega.es>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

El día 8 de marzo de 2012 02:05, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<ivan at sanchezortega.es> escribió:
> On Jueves, 8 de Marzo de 2012 01:41:22 andrzej zaborowski escribió:
>> Great :) -- Madrid is rendered with a name worthy of a map prank,
>> although it would fit loc_name too.
>
> I'm guessing that's an old toponym, now deleted from OSM. But we Madrileños
> refer to our city as that sometimes :-)

My guess is that, at least in my area, they are mixing OSM geometries
and names with -very poor- labels from other source. I would bet that
some of these wrong names were never on our database (city names and
neigbourhoods)

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Jaime Crespo

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