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

[Iain Ingram]

Martin,

As you and others have seen no valid arguments can you please provide any documentation that Alberta uses a cardinal system for naming? I fully agree that in areas that use abbreviation it should be expanded. Now I ask for something that supports that these names are actually abbreviated. 

Further to that I would also like the guidance around expanding legal land as that is how you add addresses to rural areas. If these are to be expanded or not?

This is a large change to Alberta and it extends more than just a display name or expanding an abbreviation. Because that is not actually what we are doing we are changing the name. I do support no abbreviations but I would like to see the support that these are abbreviations. I have provided that they are not and no comments back. I could be mistaken.

Iain


> On Dec 15, 2022, at 8:02 AM, Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, at 09:15, Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca wrote:
>> For what it’ s worth, I second that position. I see no argument in support of keeping abbreviations that have not been made, hence considered, before the OSM guidance was established and yet it was decided it is preferable to avoid abbreviations in name tags.
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> To be frank though, that guidance was established when OSM was largely made up of British mappers, and abbreviations aren't really used there. Every High Street is signed "High Street", not "High St"; there's usually no North or South or East or West; to say nothing of quadrants.
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> --Jarek
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