[Talk-ca] Expanding vs abbreviating

[Matthew Darwin]

Maybe the wiki needs updating, because it doesn't align with this 
discussion:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines


        Street names

Many Canadian cities and towns use the grid based structure, the 
presence of numbered streets and avenues is very common.

/Suggestion:/ Name these streets/avenues with the full name (such as 
51st Street Northeast) and let the renderer sort out the abbreviation 
where required. Where the numbering system ends below 30, consider 
spelling out the numbers.



Matthew Darwin
matthew at mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca

On 2018-02-20 09:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 2018-02-20 01:15 PM, Viajero Perdido wrote:
>> But if that changes it so it's no longer "the name", logically that rule
>> doesn't apply.
> It seems that in the US cities in OSM that I've looked at, mappers have
> been fairly (but not completely) consistent in using full quadrant
> names: Northeast, Northwest, …
>
> Quadrant addresses in Canadian cities seem to be almost perfectly
> consistent in using NE, NW, …
>
> I must admit, the US map looks very strange with the words spelled out
> in full.
>
>   Stewart
>
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