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by nobody31 5339 days ago
Generally buying national map data is expensive in europe.

The naming of streets is also quite complex, if the street has been there for 1000years then it's likely that various of layers of government aren't quite in synch with what they are calling it.

so if google maps just uses a free public domain source it might not match what the city council or the post office use