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

[Michael Stark]

Hey Brian,

I'll jump in to answer your questions.

The names are abbreviated in Calgary (and most other places in Alberta)
because that's how they are officially written. It's not something local
mappers decided.

I don't have a specific example, but the mapper I was talking to whose
software broke works in the oil and gas industry. I assume the software
broke because the OSM names didn't match the official names from the
provincial or local government.

I hope these answers are helpful.

Warm regards,
Michael

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:39 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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