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Wrong placenames in Belgium

Dear Yahoo!

I wrote you about this before and you replied you would look into it but I haven't heard anything since.

First of all there is a little typo in the town Heverlee in Belgium. Yahoo! Placemaker, Flickr and Upcomming (I assume it's the same database underneath) all think it's Heverle (with a single 'e' at the end). This is wrong, the town's name is Heverlee. Could you please correct this?

Secondly there is the mismatch with 2 other cities. Leuven (another city in Belgium) is always shown as Louvain-la-neuve. I know, they sound similar and I can understand the confusion but these are 2 different cities (in a different province, with different languages). All my geotagged foto's in Flickr show op as "Louvain-la-neuve" while they are taken in Leuven. Again, this is wrong in all the other Yahoo! services as well (checked in upcoming and Flickr).

Could anyone please fix these? Seems like a small fix to me but would help a few 10000 people living in these areas.

Thanks!

Cimm
Aug 27, 2009

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- Walter
- Aug 27, 2009
Thank you, we will look into this and remove these English name labels in a future version.

In the mean time you can get the correct Dutch names for these two places via the GeoPlanet API:

Leuven:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/973505...YOUR_APPID_HERE

Heverlee:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/971176...YOUR_APPID_HERE

GeoPlanet documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/

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- Cimm
- Aug 27, 2009
Thanks for the fast reply Walter!

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- Cimm
- Sep 3, 2009
Walter,

Any idea when this will be solved in the production version?

Here is an example of Heverle in Flickr (where it should be Heverlee): http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoeters/3801108578/
Another one that shows Louvain-La-Neuve (where it should be Leuven): http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoeters/2482774729/

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- Cimm
- Oct 7, 2009
Walter,

Any progress on this issue?

Thanks!

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- Walter
- Oct 12, 2009
We are working on this, but unfortunately I cannot provide a date.

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- Walter
- Nov 19, 2009
Flickr, and GeoPLanet have upgraded with the new data, and Placemaker is due to shortly.
Try the links below again.

QUOTE (cimm45 @ Sep 3 2009, 05:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Walter,

Any idea when this will be solved in the production version?

Here is an example of Heverle in Flickr (where it should be Heverlee): http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoeters/3801108578/
Another one that shows Louvain-La-Neuve (where it should be Leuven): http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoeters/2482774729/

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- Cimm
- Dec 13, 2009
Walter,

Great! This is exactly how it should be, thanks for addressing this issue.

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