Wow these are all so interesting!
I had one be sent just around four hours from me in my state. Funny enough, the user is a teacher, which is my major!
The same is the case in Potsdam. Postcrossing has Potsdam and Potsdam West. The latter is just a district of the city but has never been independent from Potsdam
siobhan
October 28, 2022, 6:05pm
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Because the list of place names comes from another source:
The locations in Postcrossing are not translated by us — or even put together by us. That is an enormous project we just wouldn’t have the means to even start.
The data comes from the GeoNames project which tries to merge together several datasets into a single database. The result is not without its problems, but it’s still the best free database we have found. I’m not aware of a better one, even commercial ones, that has the level of coverage that GeoNames has.
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