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

[Paul Norman]

On 2022-12-12 8:42 p.m., Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:34 PM Michael Stark 
> <michael60634 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>
> Correct, and this is also true in other quadrant-divided cities such 
> as Washington, DC.  Despite the fact that this is abbreviated on 
> signs, the OSM convention (that data consumers of all stripes expect) 
> is for the abbreviations to be spelled out in full.
>
> In all other parts of the world with quadrant suffixes -- like 
> Washington -- that quadrant suffix of "NW" would be expanded to 
> "Northwest".
>
> In other words, the abbreviation scheme used in Calgary is apparently 
> different from that of the rest of the world.  All we are asking here 
> is for the Calgary mapping community to explain why they have chosen 
> to apply a different tagging style from the global norm, to describe 
> what that tagging scheme is, and to publicly document those conventions.


I believe Calgary's quadrants should be expanded, in accordance with 
standard OSM practice. This is not something where each country makes 
its own decisions - we're a global project here, and there's nothing 
unique to Calgary that isn't present in other English-speaking regions 
with quadrants.

One fact I find particularly compelling in establishing that there is 
not some unusual rare exception to how things work elsewhere is the fact 
that people in this thread have established that the unabbreviated form 
is commonly used verbally.
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