You may know that our house is absolutely the last in Reading and the
Wokingham border goes along its left-hand side. Strange that when I check
the city, having stopped outside my home, it says "Wokingham" but the maps
are rightly included with Reading. I shall have to check just how far down
the road I have to go before it's registering Reading!
Oh, anyone from Sendero, could you please advise what we do with information
which has not been altered in the current maps. This particular shop (POI)
moved about the same time the new maps came out and obviously this didn't
make the change. I'd gladly pass it on if I should do this.
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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:15 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street using the address lookup
feature
Carol
I know of streets on the boundary of Slough and Burnham that have the odd
numbers in Slough and the even numbers in Burnham. In this case all the
postal addresses are Slough and the postcodes run continuously.
As far as divided buildings are concerned Skindles Hotel at Maidenhead is
divided between Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. When the hotel was built it
was totally in Buckinghamshire because the boundary was deemed to be in
the middle of the Thames but after a boundary change the boundary followed
the Buckinghamshire bank of the river consequently the Riverside Bar and
Terrace that was built over the river was in Berkshire. In this case it
did not matter so much but on the English/Welsh border there is a pub that
is divided and this had serious consequences because one bar was in
England and the other in a 'dry' Welsh county. This meant that the two
bars were subject to different licensing laws. The bar in Wales could not
sell drink on a Sunday!
There must be similar situations in the States particularly with their
history of prohibition and so on.
