<br><br>On Monday, December 12, 2022, Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:17 PM Hoser AB <<a href="mailto:hoserab1@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoserab1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well Brian, the answer to question 1 is pretty straight forward: I don't really know whether it's more or less ignored or accepted in Washington, District of Columbia (abbreviations are a no-no, don'tcha know? ;) ). And I don't really care either.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry, but this does not answer my question. I'll state it again:</div><div><br></div><div>Is the decision to abbreviate names in Calgary based on something different about Calgary from the rest of the world, or is it just a convention that local mappers have chosen based on preference? Please forgive me for asking this directly, as it's the crux of the discussion.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess we'll just go around in circles then, because I did quite succinctly answer your question: I don't presume to know what "the world" does, and it's irrelevant anyway. I don't know whether there's "something different about Calgary from the rest of the world," and I don't care if there is or not.</div><div><br></div><div>You keep framing this in comparison to Washington, District of Columbia—I hope it's not going unnoticed that I keep pointing out that you seem perfectly okay with abbreviating DC—and asking "why is it okay to spell out the quadrants in that city and not yours?" I keep telling you: I. DON'T. KNOW. I don't know why you expect me to know why it's accepted there. I've visited many times, but I don't know all the ins and outs of the place. I *do* know my own city though, and I can tell you we categorically keep the quadrants abbreviated.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You're demanding I justify this to you, because you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it's just a stylistic "preference" that I and a cohort of other contributors to OSM decided. What I and others have been trying to tell you is that it's not a "convention local mappers have chosen", but rather it's a convention that exists outside of OSM in this little place called *the real world*.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't otherwise know what you expect me to tell you.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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