[OSM-talk] Irish placenames anomaly

[Peter Körner]

Hi

Am 14.07.2013 21:52, schrieb Steve Chilton:
> The distribution of Irish placenames from OSM presents a couple of geographical anomalies. (See http://steve8.dev.openstreetmap.org/OSM_Placenames_Ireland.jpg). First, the west-east central belt has suspiciously far fewer names than immediately to the north and south. And secondly, bang in the middle of this belt is a roughly circular area with a dense mass of placenames.
> Any explanations spring to mind...?

Ususually the quality and quantity of mapping is strongly dependant of
where the mappers live.

Peter