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

[Michael Stark]

Hey Brian,

I believe you accidentally replied to me specifically instead of clicking
"reply all".

"Anecdotal stories which can't be publicly examined are not helpful."

I don't know the name of the software in question. All I know is that the
person that uses this software contacted me after my changes broke it. I
don't know if he wants to be identified here as he has told me that he has
had past issues with mailing list, so I have not mentioned his name.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:54 PM Michael Stark <michael60634 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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