[Talk-ca] Abbreviations

[James]

oh boy this can of worms again. This has been discussed at length before.

Including possibly following a GoC nomenclature database.

But the general rule of thumb was to trust local mappers first instead of
expanding things based on external preference

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 9:47 AM Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais <leo at leograph.com>
wrote:

> I would suggest to contact the user who change names to abbreviations and
> send them the link to OpenStreetMap official policy on St/Ste/Saint/Sainte
> abbreviations. They can add the short_name tag if they want to keep the
> abbreviations somewhere in the tags.
>
> If no response after one week, revert with my blessing!
>
> > On Jul 4, 2023, at 9:19 AM, <fbax at execulink.com> <fbax at execulink.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations
> > ==> If the name can be spelled without an abbreviation, then don't
> > abbreviate it.
> >
> > I notice that for *many* churches in London, ON; "Saint" has been
> > changed to "St". For example:
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/119789042/history
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118730476/history
> >
> > Should these changes be reversed; or has policy changed?
> >
> >
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