Geographical name conundrum:
the narrow strait between Penang island and mainland Peninsular Malaysia
Excuse me, since when it bears the name "Penang Strait"?!
Geographical name conundrum: the narrow strait between Penang island and mainland Peninsular Malaysia Excuse me, since when it bears the name "Penang Strait"?! 5 comments
Now this. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1134175227 I believe someone referred to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Strait Can I say that the Wikipedia article is somewhat misleading? Official documents by both state and federal governments have records on both North and South Straits. While the Wikipedia article cited a sailing guide. This is another instance I caught people thinking "copying Wikipedia to improve OpenStreetMap is okay-ish" @AkuAnakTimur Yeah, that happens a lot, especially for remote-only mappers. This is good case of how often, local knowledge trumps everything else, including *good* intentions. 😜 I have *problems* with some people referring to Wikipedia. To start with, some article related to places in Malaysia (and to an extent, roads) are (in broad daylight) taken from *sigh* Google Maps and probably copyrighted sources. |
When I was 10 or something, the Malaysian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire (WWTBAM) even has asked a question about it. This was c.2000 CE.
It's no single strait - in fact one WWTBAM question did mention that there's a "North Channel" (Selat Utara) and "South Channel" (Selat Selatan). Of course - relative to the main island.
edited Strait to Channel