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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2022-12-12 8:42 p.m., Brian M.
Sperlongano wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:34 PM Michael Stark <<a
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<div dir="auto">I usually see the quadrant written as "NW".
That would be on road signs, written addresses, other maps,
on Wikipedia, in real estate listings, etc.</div>
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<div>Correct, and this is also true in other quadrant-divided
cities such as Washington, DC. Despite the fact that this is
abbreviated on signs, the OSM convention (that data consumers
of all stripes expect) is for the abbreviations to be spelled
out in full.</div>
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<div>In all other parts of the world with quadrant suffixes --
like Washington -- that quadrant suffix of "NW" would be
expanded to "Northwest".</div>
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<div>In other words, the abbreviation scheme used in Calgary is
apparently different from that of the rest of the world. All
we are asking here is for the Calgary mapping community to
explain why they have chosen to apply a different tagging
style from the global norm, to describe what that tagging
scheme is, and to publicly document those conventions.</div>
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<p>I believe Calgary's quadrants should be expanded, in accordance
with standard OSM practice. This is not something where each
country makes its own decisions - we're a global project here, and
there's nothing unique to Calgary that isn't present in other
English-speaking regions with quadrants.</p>
<p>One fact I find particularly compelling in establishing that
there is not some unusual rare exception to how things work
elsewhere is the fact that people in this thread have established
that the unabbreviated form is commonly used verbally.<br>
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