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      Tomazikas
      last edited by Tomazikas

      Location Nida is named as Pervalka on Lithuanian map. It is not correct. The correct name of the location is Nida. Plase make a correction.
      Thnak you
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      • Tomber42T
        Tomber42 Moderator @Tomazikas
        last edited by

        @Tomazikas https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

        Greetings from Tomber

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        • jmh2002J
          jmh2002 Moderator Mariners - Seafarers Sailor
          last edited by

          Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy.

          Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

          https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

          https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

          Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

          Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

          In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

          Thank you :)

          WINDY is everywhere :)

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          • Tomber42T
            Tomber42 Moderator @jmh2002
            last edited by Tomber42

            @jmh2002 said in Name of the location:

            Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy.

            Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

            https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

            https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

            Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

            Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

            In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

            Thank you :)

            Good text, i added it to https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps/3 so we will be able to reference to this link https://community.windy.com/post/18933 and have this text ..no need for copy paste anymore :)

            Greetings from Tomber

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            • jmh2002J
              jmh2002 Moderator Mariners - Seafarers Sailor
              last edited by

              Thanks! @Tomber42 :)

              Now to just get everyone to actually click through to the link and read that thread... ;)

              WINDY is everywhere :)

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