[Talk-ca] Abbreviations

[Justin Tracey]

FWIW, the "don't un-abbreviate names" exception is only documented as 
applying to municipality and street names: 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada/Tagging_guidelines#Naming

But yeah, in general, OSM data in Canada is weird when it comes to 
abbreviations, and I would not jump to conclusions about anything mapped 
by someone local.

  - Justin

On 2023-07-04 09:57, James wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:fbax at execulink.com>> <fbax at execulink.com
>     <mailto:fbax at execulink.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations
>     <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/119789042/history>
>      > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118730476/history
>     <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/118730476/history>
>      >
>      > Should these changes be reversed; or has policy changed?
>      >
>      >
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