Posted: 2010-03-22 10:11:00
Hi,
I also have found a number of 'strange' cities around the globe on GLOBO, but I realised that there will be legitimate places like that. In Poland, there are a few villages called 'Sweden', 'Switzerland', etc.
My concern would be consistency. For a number of years, places have been added to GLOBO under various spelling versions and/or under various regions within their countries. I'm not referring to multilingual countries like Belgium or Switzerland, where cities would have alternative spellings. Which is correct. Instead, it is places under alternative spelling resulting from transliterations of non-Latin letter languages (example: Dubayy and Dubai) and from places' native names and their English equivalent, both of which exist on GLOBO as separate places. It is important, of course, that GLOBO recognises various alternative spellings of the same place, but those ought to be assigned to the same place rather than allocated as separate places. I am not sure what technical capability GLOBO has to correct that and assign alternative spellings to a single place, though.
There are also other errors, which would should gradually correct. Including flags - making sure that they are current - example:
http://www.globosapiens.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo_flag.html
the above is invalid, and should be:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/sub-saharan-africa/congo-democratic-republic
And while we have Jan Mayen as a country, we are still missing Kosovo... And I am aware that separating material relating to Kosovo from the Serbia data within GLOBO would be a task and a half...
I am sure that correcting this would take Andy a lot of time. And cooperation from members might be necessary to report those to assist in this. So, how do we prioritise all this?
Kindest regards
Krys ---
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