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11/ As if that is not confusing enough for the 12 million tourists who visit Barcelona each year (approximately ten times the city's population), residents of the La Salut neighbourhood successfully campaigned to have the 🚌 🚏 116 bus route removed from Google and Apple Maps to battle overcrowding caused by tourists trying to visit the world-famous Park Güell, designed by legendary architect Antoni Gaudi.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

#geoweirdness

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OpenCage πŸ‘‰πŸŒ replied to OpenCage

12/ We'll leave our look at Catalan #geoweirdness there, thanks for reading and sharing πŸ™ What did we miss?

We hope you can join us at Geomob Barcelona #geomobbcn in a few weeks.

Until then we have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea

If you enjoyed our look at Catalonia, you may also appreciate our threads about:

Spain πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ en.osm.town/@opencage/11056498
and
France πŸ‡«πŸ‡· en.osm.town/@opencage/10993004

12/ We'll leave our look at Catalan #geoweirdness there, thanks for reading and sharing πŸ™ What did we miss?

We hope you can join us at Geomob Barcelona #geomobbcn in a few weeks.

Until then we have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea

OpenCage πŸ‘‰πŸŒ replied to OpenCage

Wait! Forgot to post about one of the most delightful #geoweirdness things in Catalonia.

In the Catalan town of Badia del Vallès not far from Barcelona the street layout is actually a map of Iberia

openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.5

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