What's the origin of data for cities?

[Klenkes]

Where does the data come from?
And is it maintained somehow?

Example:
I added locations for Germany.
I wanted to add a profile for myself and searched for my hometown only to find a very very old name is used. This name is outdated since almost 30 years, means several villages were combined/merged in a new town with a new name. 30 years ago!

Took me a while to find the old name in the list, but since I am a little old myself  I found it.
But everyone below 35 won't have a chance.

I know I can edit the name in Osclass but I only found out because it is my hometown.
I can only speculate how many others are outdated.

So... where does the data come from?

[teseo]

Hi

They are retrieved from here:

http://geo.osclass.org/downloads/

Regards

[_CONEJO]

Hi Klenkes

As teseo said, the data is served from http://geo.osclass.org/downloads/ and it's maintained by us, the Osclass team with the help of collaborators sometimes. Anyone is free to send us modifications or additions. I'm sorry that some of the data is outdated.


Where does the data come from?
Some of the countries comes from another project (3 years ago), data was known to be correct. I think Germany was one of the first countries, but I could be wrong...
We later added some other countries with the help of users, giving us the data directly or telling us were to gather/find it from trusted sources.


Could you give me the name of the city (old and new), and any other (a few only) you find are not correct?

[Klenkes]

Thanks for the explanation!

Here's what's wrong in Germany:
Old city name: Altenberg
New city name: Syrgenstein

Syrgenstein is the official name to identify the city in postal matters with ZIP code and everything else.

Just FYI: "Altenberg"(the old name) would then be a City Area people would input to narrow down the area of "Syrgenstein".
Google Map
Looks funny. But true.

[thedaigle]

Can we add "Orange" to Texas, please?