Delirium wrote:
This particular proposal also seems to be heavily relying on a few global placename databases that: 1) have very minimal data (often just coordinates); and 2) have lots of errors, or at best ambiguity. Someone already found a village in Nigeria that likely doesn't even exist.
This point was brought up on one of the discussion pages. I believe the plan is to use the intersection of two or three nominally-independent databases.