Bug 73190

Summary: KStars contains the Dutch city "Kapteyn", while there is no such city in The Netherlands
Product: [Applications] kstars Reporter: Rinse De Vries <rinse>
Component: generalAssignee: kstars
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Rinse De Vries 2004-01-22 00:18:33 UTC 
Version:           1.0 (using KDE 3.1.94 (3.2 Beta 2), SuSE)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-166-athlon

Hi,
One of our Dutch audience wrote me this about the city Kapteyn:

"There is a place called Kapteyn in The Netherlands, according to the Englisch version of kstars.

The used coordinates correspond with the city Nijmegen 

I don't know who the joker is that put this name in the English version, but imho it is incorrect.

Kapteyn was a well known astronomer at the start of the 20th century. He was the founder of the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen, part of the University of Groningen. 

It is possible that a personal starwatch in Nijmegen uses that name, but Google couldn't find anything. 

Anyway, Nijmegen is the name of the city."
Comment 1 kstars 2004-01-22 07:07:34 UTC 
Changing this to a bug, since it's an error, not a feature request.  I'll fix this as soon as the freeze is lifted from 3_2_BRANCH.
Comment 2 Marc Wolf 2004-01-22 21:00:31 UTC 
Indeed you are correct. Kapteyn was a well known Dutch astronomer. In Holland we do have the famous Kapteyn Laboratorium, specialized in far-end infrared detectors used in IRAS.

The lab is situated in Groningen, a city in the north of Holland, so I would propose to use the co-ordinated of Groningen, which is already in the city database and take out the Kapteyn city.
Comment 3 kstars 2004-01-27 10:43:37 UTC 
Subject: kdeedu/kstars/kstars/data

CVS commit by harris: 

Filling wish #70697 (More cities in the database)
Fixing bug #73190 (Correct name of city Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Backporting to KDE_3_2_BRANCH

CCMAIL: 70697-done@bugs.kde.org
CCMAIL: 73190-done@bugs.kde.org
CCMAIL: kstars-devel@kde.org


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