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

[Hoser AB]

On Monday, December 12, 2022, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:17 PM Hoser AB <hoserab1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I'm sorry, but this does not answer my question.  I'll state it again:
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> 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.
>

I guess we'll just go around in circles then, because I did quite
succinctly answer your question: I don't presume to know what "the world"
does, and it's irrelevant anyway. I don't know whether there's "something
different about Calgary from the rest of the world," and I don't care if
there is or not.

You keep framing this in comparison to Washington, District of Columbia—I
hope it's not going unnoticed that I keep pointing out that you seem
perfectly okay with abbreviating DC—and asking "why is it okay to spell out
the quadrants in that city and not yours?" I keep telling you: I. DON'T.
KNOW. I don't know why you expect me to know why it's accepted there. I've
visited many times, but I don't know all the ins and outs of the place. I
*do* know my own city though, and I can tell you we categorically keep the
quadrants abbreviated.

You're demanding I justify this to you, because you seem to be under the
mistaken impression that it's just a stylistic "preference" that I and a
cohort of other contributors to OSM decided. What I and others have been
trying to tell you is that it's not a "convention local mappers have
chosen", but rather it's a convention that exists outside of OSM in this
little place called *the real world*.

I don't otherwise know what you expect me to tell you.
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