<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, at 09:15, Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div>For what it’ s worth, I second that position. I see no argument in support of keeping abbreviations that have not been made, hence considered, before the OSM guidance was established and yet it was decided it is preferable to avoid abbreviations in name tags.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To be frank though, that guidance was established when OSM was largely made up of British mappers, and abbreviations aren't really used there. Every High Street is signed "High Street", not "High St"; there's usually no North or South or East or West; to say nothing of quadrants.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Jarek<br></div><div><br></div></body></html>