[talk-au] Road name abbreviation exception?

[Warin]

Many church names in Australia have names containing 'Saint' followed by a persons name these are are commonly abbreviated 'St'.

I expand these out to Saint. I think that is correct in the English language.

I don't think the alt_name should carry the abbreviation, nor an expanded version.

For St Leonards .. there are two Saint Leonards

Saint Leonard of Port Maurice 1676-1751

Saint Leonard of Noblac -559

Saint Peter is well known ... well one of them at least. :)

---------------- Following a UK example?

Having a bet both ways ? In the UK a search on St Leonard lead me to

Node: Drayton Saint Leonard (21268304) - Saint - centre of the place.

Relation: Drayton St. Leonard (1864544)- St. - parish boundary.

Yes these are both the same area.

So .. for the suburbs/towns/villages at least it can be done both ways .. without using alt_name.


On 29/06/18 17:31, Michael wrote:
>
> The usage of Saint “Name” is wrong in the English language and should 
> not be used.
>
> The only time you use that notation is when you write about the person 
> specifically.
>
> Also in French Saint “Name” is acceptable just to be confusing, but 
> this about Australian names and they should all be English (Unlike Canada)
>
> What we might have to consider is that in indexing you use S*a*int not 
> S*t*, do we need to have it explicitly in the tagging (ie alt_name) or 
> is this the responsibility of the renderer to work out?
>
> Michael
>
> *From:*Nemanja Bračko <brackone at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 29 June 2018 5:02 PM
> *To:* philip at philipmallis.com
> *Cc:* talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] Road name abbreviation exception?
>
> ​​
>
> Hi!
> The easiest way is to add alt_name with abbreviation. Also if 
> community agrees, it is possible to put abbreviation in the name tag 
> (because of rendering name on the map), but use "Saint" as alt_name.
>
> Best Regrads,
>
> Nemanja
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Philip Mallis <philip at philipmallis.com 
> <mailto:philip at philipmallis.com>> wrote:
>
>     It depends on the context. St Kilda in Melbourne is another
>     example where that is used instead of 'Saint'.
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>     On 29 Jun 2018, at 10:28, cleary <osm at 97k.com
>     <mailto:osm at 97k.com>> wrote:
>
>         In New South Wales, the Geographic Names Board register shows
>         the Sydney suburb Mount Druitt (no abbreviation) while the
>         adjacent suburb is St Marys (always St and never Saint). The
>         same applies to places named St Peters and St Leonards. Using
>         the word "Saint" would not accord with the places' official
>         names.
>
>         I understand there is a tendency to remove sectarian
>         references so that "St" can be pronounced as the speaker
>         wishes and is not necessarily "Saint".
>
>         On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 5:21 AM, Nathan Ginther (Insight
>         Global Inc) wrote:
>
>             Hello all, our team has come into an interesting situation
>             regarding road name abbreviations, we know that as a
>             policy we spell out any and all abbreviations on the OSM
>             map, however it looks like we may have run into an
>             exception in the use of “Saint vs St”
>             (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion).
>             It looks like the use of “St” instead of spelling out
>             “Saint” is accepted within the mapping community, and
>             might be the proper English spelling, but we want to get
>             the response from the community as what is the
>             accepted/preferred use when naming roads specifically,
>             should we be spelling out Saint, or using St?
>
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