Re: [talk-ph] When to use"Saint" or "St." in place names

2017-06-20 Thread Jim Morgan
Just to flag a related issue, the search engine of OSM doesn't seem 'smart' in that it doesn't know that 'St.' and 'Saint' are equivalent (or 'St.' and 'Street' for that matter!). So when you're searching for Santa Ana, but its in the database as Sta. Ana, it won't be found. So yes, it is

[talk-ph] When to use"Saint" or "St." in place names

2017-06-14 Thread Jherome Miguel
After reading this OSM Help thread ( https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/19609/saint-or-st-is-there-an-official-osm-policy), this has raised this question for place names in the Philippines starting with "Saint" and "St.". While there is consensus on OSMPH to use "San" over "Sn." and "Santa"