I’m newish to this work, but I do have a comment as a consumer of media with an interest of local history.
Speaking as someone who read a fanfic that had a scene featuring the roundabout by my place of residence, as well as a notable JRPG that featured a sign for one of the intersecting highways of the roundabout in some random fictional location, I can say that a reader familiar with an area will absolutely pick up on if you grasped the locale right in the work. It’s an incredible feeling to read about a place you know well in fiction, and a letdown if it’s described incorrectly or haphazardly.
Speaking as someone who read a fanfic that had a scene featuring the roundabout by my place of residence, as well as a notable JRPG that featured a sign for one of the intersecting highways of the roundabout in some random fictional location, I can say that a reader familiar with an area will absolutely pick up on if you grasped the locale right in the work. It’s an incredible feeling to read about a place you know well in fiction, and a letdown if it’s described incorrectly or haphazardly.