All searches in my town (Gatineau) list it as Ottawa but should be Gatineau.
Gatineau - Quebec - Canada Is not Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
It's very annoying and error inducing.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
11 points (86.7% liked)
OpenStreetMap community
4216 readers
80 users here now
Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.
There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community
https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
There are a lot of incorrect towns in Australia too. It seems to be using the name of the map region instead of the name of the suburb or town
I agree that is most likely the reason. For me (in Germany) it always shows the wrong state for the city I live in because the map data is grouped with another bigger state.
I think it's rather an issue in Organic Maps and not wrong OSM data.
It's not even the region name as that would be Outaouais.
Yes it's not the geographic region name, but seems to use the map name
For example much of western Sydney is shown as Liverpool even though that is one area