Subject: [Tweeters] a suggestion
Date: Wed Feb 26 07:49:58 PST 2020
From: J Christian Kessler - 1northraven at gmail.com

as I've searched for locations identified on Tweeters, too often GoogleMaps
does not recognize that name. *A Birder's Guide to Washington* may include
that site in the index, or in the text, but even it may not use the same
name as listed in the posting, or include the site at all.

Chris Kessler
Seattle

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:54 PM Michelle Maani <lamoustique at yahoo.com>
wrote:


> I agree with Jim, that city and county should be included. "Just Google

> it" does not work when there are multiple locations with the same name, or

> the name is accidentally misspelled in the tweet. I actually ran into that

> once here on tweeters,when I googled a location and found out that there

> were three ponds with the same name in Washington state. Apparently humans

> are not very original when they name places.

>

> Michelle Maani

> Salmon Creek, Vancouver, WA (case in point, there are two places named

> Vancouver, one just north of Washington state and one in Washington across

> the river from Portland, Oregon.)

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