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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:17 PM Hoser AB <hoserab1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well Brian, the answer to question 1 is pretty straight forward: I don't
> really know whether it's more or less ignored or accepted in Washington,
> District of Columbia (abbreviations are a no-no, don'tcha know? ;) ). And I
> don't really care either.
>

I'm sorry, but this does not answer my question.  I'll state it again:

Is the decision to abbreviate names in Calgary based on something different
about Calgary from the rest of the world, or is it just a convention that
local mappers have chosen based on preference?  Please forgive me for
asking this directly, as it's the crux of the discussion.


> With respect to question 2, there are users of OSM data for whom making a
> seemingly subtle change from e.g. "37 Street SW" to "Thirty-seventh Street
> Southwest" is going to break the functionality of whatever it is they're
> using it for
>

Can you give a specific example of software that will break by following
the global convention to abbreviate names, or is this just a hypothetical?
How does that software deal with the rest of the world using expanded
(non-abbreviated) names?
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