<div dir="ltr">Again "someone told me something offhand" is not useful or helpful for public discussion.<div><br></div><div>If the Calgary mapping community has a convention to map streets exactly according to a specific government database or to satisfy a specific data consumer, then I await their description of specifically what the standards are so that mappers can map freely to documented standards without being harassed.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:17 PM Michael Stark <<a href="mailto:michael60634@gmail.com">michael60634@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">Hey Brian,<div><br></div><div>I believe you accidentally replied to me specifically instead of clicking "reply all".</div><div><br></div><div>"Anecdotal stories which can't be publicly examined are not helpful."</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know the name of the software in question. All I know is that the person that uses this software contacted me after my changes broke it. I don't know if he wants to be identified here as he has told me that he has had past issues with mailing list, so I have not mentioned his name.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:54 PM Michael Stark <<a href="mailto:michael60634@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael60634@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">Hey Brian,<div><br></div><div>I'll jump in to answer your questions.</div><div><br></div><div>The names are abbreviated in Calgary (and most other places in Alberta) because that's how they are officially written. It's not something local mappers decided.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't have a specific example, but the mapper I was talking to whose software broke works in the oil and gas industry. I assume the software broke because the OSM names didn't match the official names from the provincial or local government.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope these answers are helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,</div><div>Michael</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:39 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">zelonewolf@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"><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 class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>With respect to question 2, there are users of OSM data for whom making a seemingly subtle change from e.g. "37 Street SW" to "Thirty-seventh Street Southwest" is going to break the functionality of whatever it is they're using it for</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you give a specific example of software that will break by following the global convention to abbreviate names, or is this just a hypothetical? How does that software deal with the rest of the world using expanded (non-abbreviated) names?</div><div><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 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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