Streetcomplete: Street complete seems to show railway information in the wrong location

Created on 20 Aug 2019  路  7Comments  路  Source: westnordost/StreetComplete

StreetComplete shows the main Li猫ge railway station in a completely wrong location. Reported by a user, and visble in my Android with version 13.
For more info see https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1891186

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This is how the place looks like in StreetComplete. Anything wrong with it?

https://map-data.de/#map=18/50.64333/5.5725835&style=streetcomplete-light

Uh, this is weird.
In your link:

  • it looks right in the cinnabar style
  • the streetcomplete styles show "Jonfosse" from zoomlevel 19 in exactly the same place where the app shows me the wrong "Liege-Guillemins" station.

Neither Jonfosse or Liege-Guillemins have anything to do with that exact location.
What I see in the app (and is linked in the Note as well: https://imgs.be/5d5be243-1064.png) is not the same as what your link above shows me.

The problem seems to be the following:
The data which is used in the vector map has multiple sources like OpenStreetMap or whosonfirst.org.
The label on the screenshot is from whosonfirst and the different labels in different languages are there because StreetComplete autodetects the language of the user, so a French speaking user sees the name "Gare de Li猫ge-Guillemins", a German user is going to see the name "Bahnhof Li猫ge-Guillemins" and if the language is unknown (or not set like in the web interface) the user sees "Jonfosse":

liege

The problem is that whosonfirst often supplies invalid data, see also https://github.com/ENT8R/streetcomplete-mapstyle/issues/14
Actually, @matkoniecz already opened a pull request (https://github.com/ENT8R/streetcomplete-mapstyle/pull/26) to remove whosonfirst.org as a data source, but that was in an early stage of the development of the mapstyle, so after that the style was rewritten a lot and whosonfirst.org is not banned anymore...
Maybe we should consider banning it again if the data supplid by whosonfirst is so wrong in so many cases?

Right, okay!

Now it is fixable by updating map styles to latest commit.

Thank you!

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