[OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Sun Nov 20 17:54:42 UTC 2016


Have you tried contacting the mappers who created and last edited these
nodes? It looks like they were imported from some official source in
2011 and tidied up in 2014. 

--colin

On 2016-11-20 18:41, Sebastian Arcus wrote:

> I'm looking at the following section of OSM:
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/42.9959/-8.3908
> 
> I see lots and lots of locality names, on what the satellite imagery confirms to be otherwise just empty fields and forests. I'm pretty sure I've seen this elsewhere on OSM, in another part of the world. Does anybody know why are all these place names there - in the middle of nowhere?
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