<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28279" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28326">It would seem to me that an <i><b>official</b></i> place name should take precedence over OSM protocols.  If we expand the abbreviations (or contractions), of St. and Ste., then are we not altering the official place name of the feature?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28279" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28279" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28698">The federal government downloaded that responsibility to the provinces, and in Ontario the official place names appear at</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28279" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/Geonames/Index.html?site=Geographic_Names&viewer=Geonames&locale=en-US" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28723">http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/Geonames/Index.html?site=Geographic_Names&viewer=Geonames&locale=en-US</a><span><br></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28280"><br>Bill Patterson</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28280"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28333" style="display: block;">  <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28332"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28331"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28330"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28334"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28352"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Kevin Farrugia <kevinfarrugia@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> James <james2432@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 16, 2018 3:58 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28748"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28747">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28335"><br><div id="yiv6795810565"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28337"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28336">Sorry, accidentally pressed reply instead of reply all:<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28338"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28339"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28340">Those are the official names, for example:</span><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28342"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FDJFN" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28341">http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/ search-place-names/unique/ FDJFN</a><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28344"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FDTCR" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28343">http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/ search-place-names/unique/ FDTCR</a></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28345">-------<br clear="none">Kevin Farrugia</div></div></div><div class="yiv6795810565gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28346"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6795810565yqt4004099238" id="yiv6795810565yqtfd95266"><div class="yiv6795810565gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28347">On Feb 16, 2018 3:50 PM, "James" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28351">james2432@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv6795810565gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28349"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28348"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://saultstemarie.ca/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28749">http://saultstemarie.ca/</a><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518828071638_28350"><br clear="none"></div><div>thats how its written. even on signs to there</div></div><div class="yiv6795810565gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6795810565gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2018 3:47 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv6795810565gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Feb 16, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Darwin <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:matthew@mdarwin.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:matthew@mdarwin.ca">matthew@mdarwin.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
> St. Catharines, St. Thomas, Sault Ste. Marie<br clear="none">
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I dislike sounding nit-picky, this really is meant as constructive criticism, but let's expand these names so there are no abbreviations.  Our wiki <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Names">https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Name s</a> says "If the name can be spelled without an abbreviation, then don't abbreviate it."<br clear="none">
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