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There's definitely something wrong. Looking at the SQL file, "Zürich" is listed as "Zdrich", Munich is only shown as "Munich" without the German name "München
by bhaak 11y ago
There's definitely something wrong.
Looking at the SQL file, "Zürich" is listed as "Zdrich", Munich is only shown as "Munich" without the German name "München" anywhere, and Cologne is listed as "Cologne" with the wrong "Koln" as alternative name.
Doesn't look like a reliable data source.
- seszett 11y agoFrench names have the same problem, with "La Réunion" being shown as "La Rcunion" and "Rhône-Alpes" as "RhAne-Alpes". It's strange, I can't really understand how these accents can get mangled as these particular single letters.
- vcarl 11y agoAlmost looks like OCR errors, especially Rhône -> RhAne.
- bhaak 11y agoI don't think that the reason are OCR errors. It's too consistent for that. I think I also have seen such character set corruptions before, but I can't remember how exactly you can get these particular corruptions.
- marco1 11y agoThey're not OCR errors, unfortunately. Sorry for these problems! We have to investigate!
- maze-le 11y agoIt's 2015 and we still have UTF-8 problems... sigh
- spacemanmatt 11y agoOr this is just a sloppy translation/compilation from better sources.
- marco1 11y agoSorry for the inaccuracies! We'd love to fix all those issues -- maybe with some help from the community :) The goal is definitely to turn this into a more and more reliable data source every day.