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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi, <br>
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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">It sounds fine for me.
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    On 2019-09-10 7:54 a.m., john whelan wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Looks good to me and if Matthew has cast his eye
        over it and not spotted anything major then I think we can
        safely say Ottawa is happy with it.
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        <div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 9:57 PM
          Pierre Béland via Talk-ca, <<a
            href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org"
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          .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Cela semble
          bien préciser, mais les collègues d'Ontario pourront mieux
          répondre.
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                target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">Envoyé
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                <div>Le lun., sept. 9 2019 à 3:11 PM, Jarek Piórkowski</div>
                <div><<a href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>> a
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              <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0
                0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> Hi Pierre,<br
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                <br clear="none">
                (I responded via email at first, but realized one more
                thing, so<br clear="none">
                adding on and sending to talk-ca:)<br clear="none">
                <br clear="none">
                The proposed wiki addition does start with "In Ontario".
                However<br clear="none">
                thanks bringing this up, as I realized I forgot to
                account for parts<br clear="none">
                of Ontario where streets will be named in French - this
                change should<br clear="none">
                not apply to those.<br clear="none">
                <br clear="none">
                I am changing the suggested wording to:<br clear="none">
                <br clear="none">
                    In parts of **Ontario** that primarily name streets
                in English,<br clear="none">
                street and road names containing initial "St." or "St"
                should only be<br clear="none">
                expanded to "Saint" when "Saint" is common usage for
                that street. To<br clear="none">
                be clear, this overrides the general rule<br
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                <a shape="rect"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29"
                  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29</a><br
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                for "St." which does not stand for "street". As with
                other names in<br clear="none">
                OSM, factors you might want to consider when determining
                common usage<br clear="none">
                include spellings posted on street signs ("on the
                ground" rule),<br clear="none">
                spellings used in local media, GeoBase street name data,
                and spellings<br clear="none">
                used by official municipal sources including open data
                datasets. See<br clear="none">
                discussion on talk-ca [0].<br clear="none">
                <br clear="none">
                Would this wording be fine for Ottawa and other
                bilingual areas, or am<br clear="none">
                I missing a pitfall?<br clear="none">
                <br clear="none">
                Thanks,<br clear="none">
                --Jarek<br clear="none">
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                  On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 08:51, Pierre Béland <<a
                    shape="rect" href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
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                  wrote:<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Marek<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Ces instructions ne s'appliquent pas à toutes les
                  provinces. Il faudrait donc indiquer sur la page wiki
                  à quelles provinces elles s'appliquent<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Pierre<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Envoyé à partir de Yahoo Courriel sur Android<br
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                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Le lun., sept. 9 2019 à 2:51 AM, Jarek Piórkowski<br
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                  > <<a shape="rect"
                    href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca" target="_blank"
                    rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>>
                  a écrit :<br clear="none">
                  > Hello,<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > I'm following up on the thread about saints and
                  lack thereof in street<br clear="none">
                  > names from a couple of months ago (see archives
                  [1] [2]).<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > I would like to suggest the following wording
                  added to Canadian<br clear="none">
                  > tagging guidelines at<br clear="none">
                  > <a shape="rect"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Street_names"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines#Street_names</a><br
                    clear="none">
                  > :<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  >    In Ontario, street and road names containing
                  initial "St." or "St"<br clear="none">
                  > should only be expanded to "Saint" when "Saint"
                  is common usage for<br clear="none">
                  > that street. To be clear, this overrides the
                  general rule<br clear="none">
                  > <a shape="rect"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29</a><br
                    clear="none">
                  > for "St." which does not stand for "street". As
                  with other names in<br clear="none">
                  > OSM, factors you might want to consider when
                  determining common usage<br clear="none">
                  > include spellings posted on street signs ("on the
                  ground" rule),<br clear="none">
                  > spellings used in local media, GeoBase street
                  name data, and spellings<br clear="none">
                  > used by official municipal sources including open
                  data datasets. See<br clear="none">
                  > discussion on talk-ca [0].<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > where [0] would be a link to this message/thread
                  archive. (Comments on<br clear="none">
                  > the wording and suggestions appreciated!)<br
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                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Is anyone opposed to this change?<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > I have attempted to advertise/announce this
                  proposed change. This was:<br clear="none">
                  > - posted in this mailing list in March/April of
                  this year (some quoted<br clear="none">
                  > below, see list archives for more discussion)<br
                    clear="none">
                  > - I posted a note <a shape="rect"
                    href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1741334"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1741334
                  </a>in<br clear="none">
                  > Toronto with a link to this thread (supportive
                  responses from Kevo and<br clear="none">
                  > DannyMcD)<br clear="none">
                  > - on April 10, sent a message [2] with a link to
                  the note to editors<br clear="none">
                  > who were showing up as top editors on<br
                    clear="none">
                  > <a shape="rect"
                    href="http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&country=Canada"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&country=Canada</a><br
                    clear="none">
                  > (they aren't necessarily representative of the
                  community, but it's<br clear="none">
                  > really the closest we can reasonably do given our
                  current tooling) [3]<br clear="none">
                  > (no private message responses)<br clear="none">
                  > - posted on OSM Canada Slack on 17 August<br
                    clear="none">
                  > <a shape="rect"
                    href="https://osm-ca.slack.com/archives/CASP8UQNT/p1566053199044200"
                    target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://osm-ca.slack.com/archives/CASP8UQNT/p1566053199044200</a><br
                    clear="none">
                  > (supportive responses from Matthew Darwin and
                  Eric Geiler)<br clear="none">
                  > - on August 27, sent a few more private messages
                  to editors in top 50<br clear="none">
                  > on the stats page who had done Ontario edits [4]
                  (no private message<br clear="none">
                  > responses)<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > If you know of anyone else who might have a
                  further opinion on this,<br clear="none">
                  > please forward as possible.<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  > Thanks,<br clear="none">
                  > --Jarek<br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
                  ><br clear="none">
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