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

[Martin Chalifoux]

OSM tags and street signage usually don’ t match. Many town use Rd and Blvd and such on their signage. Yet this is not what we put in OSM for many good reasons. You add nothing and repeat old arguments that I don’t buy into.

Here is a small extract from the database you link to. Street name: 24, Street type: ST, Street Quad: SE
You agree that the ST should be Steet in OSM yet you get hung up on not using Southeast for SE. Our policy is to avoid abbreviations and there is no reason to treat TYPE and QUAD differently, they are both a characterization fo the street name, which is “24”

Could it be that this issue keeps coming back it because some people insist on doing it wrong, so it keeps coming back because it is never fixed.

Cheers.

ADDRESS
STREET_NAME
STREET_TYPE
STREET_QUAD
HOUSE_NUMBER
HOUSE_ALPHA
ADDRESS_TYPE
longitude
latitude
location
POINT
9895 24 ST SE
24
ST
SE
9895


> On Dec 15, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Ian Bruseker <ian.bruseker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is kinda interesting, seeing all you people have a big long discussion about how to map where I live.  If you want me to go out my door and take a picture of a street sign, I'd be happy to.  Street signs have NW, NE, whatever on them, not the whole word, if they have that at all.  Small suburban named roads don't generally seem to, I would think because once you got that deep into a neighbourhood, you already know you're in a given quadrant so no point wasting ink to keep telling you that on the sign.  Someone earlier said something along the lines of "according to a friend of a friend who lives in Calgary..."  Well, I do live here.  Ask your questions about what this city does.
> 

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