<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi!<br>The easiest way is to add alt_name with abbreviation. Also if community agrees, it is possible to put abbreviation in the name tag (because of rendering name on the map), but use "Saint" as alt_name.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Best Regrads,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Nemanja</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Philip Mallis <<a href="mailto:philip@philipmallis.com">philip@philipmallis.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>It depends on the context. St Kilda in Melbourne is another example where that is used instead of 'Saint'.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 29 Jun 2018, at 10:28, cleary <<a href="mailto:osm@97k.com" target="_blank">osm@97k.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div style="font-family:Arial">In New South Wales, the Geographic Names Board register shows the Sydney suburb Mount Druitt (no abbreviation) while the adjacent suburb is St Marys (always St and never Saint). The same applies to places named St Peters and St Leonards. Using the word "Saint" would not accord with the places' official names. <br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">I understand there is a tendency to remove sectarian references so that "St" can be pronounced as the speaker wishes and is not necessarily "Saint".<br></div>
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<div>On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 5:21 AM, Nathan Ginther (Insight Global Inc) wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span class="m_-7028822469871276904font" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="m_-7028822469871276904size" style="font-size:11pt">Hello all, our team has come into an interesting situation regarding road name abbreviations, we know that as a policy we spell out any and all abbreviations on the OSM map, however it looks like we may have run into an exception in the
use of “Saint vs St” (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion</a>). It looks like the use of “St” instead of spelling out “Saint” is accepted within the mapping community, and might be the proper English spelling, but we want to get
the response from the community as what is the accepted/preferred use when naming roads specifically, should we be spelling out Saint, or using St?</span></span><br></p></div>
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