OpenStreetMap
Continued mapping of Margaretting and Margaretting Tye near junction of A12.
Changeset: 1240231
Interesting to see that Google Maps and Multimap (MS Virtual Earth) contain 2 identical mispellings of road names in the area. Both have Pennys Lane spelt as "Penny's Lane" (ie with an apostrophe), and both have Ivy Barn Lane as a plural Ivy Barns Lane.
At first, I thought mutual Easter Eggs maybe, but I see that both Virtual Earth and Google Maps/Earth use copyright Tele Atlas data.
Diskuse
Komentář od RichardB z 18. 05. 2009 v 21:13
In my experience - new-ish road signs tend to leave out the apostrophes - even if older road signs include them (and perhaps the 'official' name includes them). It's not uncommon to have different spellings at either end.
Komentář od Qichina z 18. 05. 2009 v 23:14
I'm sure you are right Richard. The Pennys Lane sign that I took to be the "correct" version looked old-ish though - 60s concrete posts etc.
All part of the dumbing down of our culture ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7858853.stm
:)