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

[Michael Stark]

I usually see the quadrant written as "NW". That would be on road signs,
written addresses, other maps, on Wikipedia, in real estate listings, etc.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 10:27 PM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> Vào lúc 19:17 2022-12-12, Hoser AB đã viết:
> > That said, our discussion seems to boil down to this: if it's not named
> > as spoken, TTS generally won't work. But unless it's named as typically
> > written, many data users won't be able to parse the name at all. The OSM
> > "global policy" seems to express an implicit preference for TTS to be
> > accommodated and leaves it up to other data users to parse the written
> > names. If a TTS engine can't figure out "NW" = "northwest" that's a
> > problem, but if another data user can't figure out "northwest" = "NW":
> > too bad, so sad.
>
> The only thing undermining this equivalence is that many existing OSM
> data consumers aim to support multiple or all regions, and most
> English-speaking regions already expand quadrant suffixes where they
> occur. This will continue to be the case regardless of whether Alberta's
> quadrants are abbreviated or expanded.
>
> I previously held up Mapbox Streets and OpenMapTiles as being capable of
> automatic abbreviation in English, but there are major languages for
> which they don't automatically abbreviate street name types and
> directions. That's indeed a shortcoming of the software, not the data.
>
> By the way, is the preferred form "NW" or "N.W."? Earlier posts in this
> thread were describing signs as being definitive, but the Ministry of
> Transportation seems to specify "N.W." in its sign standard. [1]
> Including periods when abbreviating may seem quaint, but from a data
> consumer's standpoint, periods could probably help to reduce ambiguity,
> especially on cardinal directions.
>
> [1]
> <
> http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType233/Production/Guide_info.pdf#page=58
> >
>
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