[Talk-ca] What do I poutine the name tag of a road with a suffix?

[Hoser AB]

Well said Steve. The conversation about this is, as I see it, inevitably
going to be an ongoing and recurring one. Brian and Minh both pointed out
two resolutions:

a) follow the "never abbreviate" rule, or,
b) document the variation to the rule and forevermore have to point
well-meaning mappers to this

But following option a) blindly isn't going to make the discussion
(/argument) go away, as pretty much any Albertan mapper who comes across it
and hasn't read the wiki (and this and similar discussions) will just
change it back, thus reigniting the conversation/debate anyway. And b) by
design will require ongoing efforts to point people to a policy.



On Sunday, December 11, 2022, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> I should likely keep quiet about now, yet I feel compelled to say this.
>
> As long as OSM has "map what I know as data" (a fantastic, revolutionary
> idea as we crowdsource this) as well as "rendered" (or routed, or used-case
> for speech, or any of infinity unimagined-as-of-yet use cases...) data, OSM
> WILL have (does have) this "tug" between entering data (especially clear,
> good, unambiguous tagging) and delivering said data.  We do.  It is "the
> dialogs among the data themselves," as it were.  All of this is very much
> OSM.  Including the admonishment NOT to "tag for the renderer."  It is a
> "tug" and something that is real and flows through our data.
>
> "Full stack" mapping that is constantly self-tuning will always have
> this:  it is multiple conversations happening up and down the stack
> simultaneously on any number of "channels" for various purposes.  Yes, our
> map is THAT plastic.  Now, back to the truly difficult task of "and all of
> us here on Earth pretty much do this cooperatively."
>
> P.S.  I love the pfunny Subject.
>
> We can do this, we already do.  We keep talking amongst ourselves, that is
> correct.  I'm out, peace.
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