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    <p>Hi,</p>
    <p>Not sure if It could help, but the Alberta Register of Historic
      Places use North, South, East, West, but for quadrant they use NE,
      SE, SW and NW.</p>
    <p>Ex: Lethbridge
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4664-0426">https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4664-0426</a></p>
    <p>Calgary:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0845">https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0845</a></p>
    <p>François Lambert<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 2022-12-15 à 19:13, Ian Bruseker a
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        <div dir="ltr">Went right on the attack there, didn't ya?  Sorry
          I contribute nothing.  But don't presume to know what I
          think...</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">"You agree that the ST should be Steet in OSM". I
          in fact made no such statement.  Didn't say a thing about how
          street types should be stored in the database.  I said "I'm
          not saying it's the right way to do it" in the context of how
          the two letter quadrant is in that database.  I'm actually
          agreeing with you, dude.  As is the classic debate, this is a
          renderer problem, so if you want anyone to actually use this
          thing, then if it all gets changed to full word in the
          database, the renderer better show it abbreviated, or no one
          in Calgary would use it.  That's my "I'm a local" opinion.  Go
          ahead, make your perfect database of perfect data all you
          want, but it'll be a tree falling in the forest for all I care
          if it's not actually useful.</div>
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        <div>Ian</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at
            16:44, Martin Chalifoux <<a
              href="mailto:martin.chalifoux@icloud.com"
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            wrote:<br>
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            <div><span
                style="font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium">OSM
                tags and street signage usually don’ t match. Many town
                use Rd and Blvd and such on their signage. Yet this is
                not what we put in OSM for many good reasons. You add
                nothing and repeat old arguments that I don’t buy into.</span>
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              <div>Here is a small extract from the database you link
                to. Street name: 24, Street type: ST, Street Quad: SE</div>
              <div>You agree that the ST should be Steet in OSM yet you
                get hung up on not using Southeast for SE. Our policy is
                to avoid abbreviations and there is no reason to treat
                TYPE and QUAD differently, they are both a
                characterization fo the street name, which is “24”</div>
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              <div>Could it be that this issue keeps coming back it
                because some people insist on doing it wrong, so it
                keeps coming back because it is never fixed.</div>
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              <div>Cheers.</div>
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                  <div>On Dec 15, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Ian Bruseker <<a
                      href="mailto:ian.bruseker@gmail.com"
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                      <div dir="ltr">This is kinda interesting, seeing
                        all you people have a big long discussion about
                        how to map where I live.  If you want me to go
                        out my door and take a picture of a street sign,
                        I'd be happy to.  Street signs have NW, NE,
                        whatever on them, not the whole word, if they
                        have that at all.  Small suburban
                        named roads don't generally seem to, I would
                        think because once you got that deep into a
                        neighbourhood, you already know you're in a
                        given quadrant so no point wasting ink to keep
                        telling you that on the sign.  Someone earlier
                        said something along the lines of "according to
                        a friend of a friend who lives in Calgary..." 
                        Well, I do live here.  Ask your questions about
                        what this city does.
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