On 2014-10-22 16:39, Matt Toups wrote:
There are a small number of streets with "Rue" in the STREET field, with no TYPE field. These come out fine with no expansion: see houses on "Rue Delphine" in ward 15, precinct 18A. (Aside: you might think the "Rue" streets would be in the French Quarter, but you'd be wrong: they're all found in recently built subdivisions on the westbank.)
In the French Quarter, you only find "Rue" in fine print above the (usually unrelated) English street name. Thus name:fr. (We should go through sometime and add old_name:es to these streets based on the historical markers.)
You're right, I'm not expanding ST to Saint. I never see this written anywhere, I think the street names are officially "St Philip" etc on all tax/legal/etc documents I've seen. Some would argue it is improper to expand ST to Saint, for example here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/19609/saint-or-st-is-there-an-official-osm-policy
But that discussion mainly pertained to British usage. Between St. Louis, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mount Saint Helens, I'm not sure the U.S. community has much of a consensus yet.
I'm leaning toward keeping the spellings as ex. "St Philip" in keeping with what's on the ground here. But we kind of have the worst of both right now: some Saints have been expanded by bots, others haven't. Here's an extreme example I just found of inconsistencies intersecting each other: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/29.92865/-90.06907
Oh, I just went through New Orleans the other day and expanded a bunch of prominent St's by hand. [1]
I've gone back and forth about this issue in the past, especially when it comes to the many Saint Clair Townships named after Gov. Arthur St. Clair (whose last name is a corruption of Sinclair).
If we do decide to abbreviate, I'd prefer "St." with a period. But that's probably just opening a whole 'nuther can of worms.
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