<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Jarek,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree that of the sign has a short form for saint then it should be that way on the map too, as the sign text comes from the official records of street names. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think St. Is better with a period as it makes it less ambiguous to it being an abbreviation and it may help screen readers or spoken directions in maps provide the right information.<br><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-------<br>Kevin F</div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 12:44 PM Jarek Piórkowski <<a href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
A couple of months back we established a consensus [1] that "St." in<br>
Canadian English city names should not be expanded.<br>
<br>
I have been thinking of having the same for street names, and would<br>
like to ask people's opinions.<br>
<br>
My main motivation is St. Clair Avenue in Toronto. Every city source I<br>
could find and every street sign I saw in Mapillary says "St. Clair"<br>
or "St Clair". The TTC stations and routes are consistently "St<br>
Clair". The City uses "St. Clair Avenue West" in official documents<br>
like [2]. Geobase in Toronto has "St Clair Avenue West" , "St Clarens<br>
Avenue", and "St Helens Avenue". Currently most of the street is named<br>
"Saint Clair Avenue West/East" in OpenStreetMap, but this is changed<br>
for some parts of the road every now and then.<br>
<br>
As a local mapper I would say that "St. Clair Avenue West" is the full<br>
name. Unlike with "Av", "Ave", "W", the "St" in "St Clair" is IMO not<br>
an abbreviation.<br>
<br>
Across the Golden Horseshoe names starting with "St. " or "St " seem<br>
to be a bit more common [3] than "Saint" [4], I gather the<br>
acronym-expanders have not looked as much outside of Toronto.<br>
<br>
Would we have Ontario community consensus for a statement along the lines of:<br>
"Where "St." or "St" is normally used in the full street name, it<br>
should not be expanded to "Saint" even if pronounced so"?<br>
<br>
(I don't know what the naming conventions are in other provinces, so I<br>
focus on Ontario for now. Apologies for being Ontario-centric, but I<br>
don't know of a better venue that is Ontario-specific. I'll post links<br>
to this message in wiki talk pages for Ontario, WikiProject_Canada,<br>
and Canadian_tagging_guidelines.)<br>
<br>
As part of my checks I also looked at London UK, which I gather might<br>
be the most-intensively-mapped English-speaking city. (Recommendations<br>
for better-mapped English-speaking cities welcome). Searching for<br>
"St." in road names [5], it has street names for bigger streets like<br>
"St. John Street" and "St. Pancras Way"; [6] has name="St. Paul's<br>
Road" + not:name="Saint Paul's Road" and has had so for 5 years.<br>
Compare with searching for "Saint" [7] which also has some hits,<br>
suggesting that both can be valid depending on what is signed and<br>
used. (Or maybe it's just inconsistent.)<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Municipality_Names" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Municipality_Names</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-92339.pdf" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-92339.pdf</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/H1M" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/H1M</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/H1P" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/H1P</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GPh" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GPh</a><br>
[6] <a href="https://osm.org/way/230843467" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.org/way/230843467</a><br>
[7] <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GPi" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GPi</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
--Jarek<br>
<br>
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