Maybe the wiki needs updating, because it doesn't align with this
discussion:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines
Street names
Many Canadian cities and towns use the grid based structure, the
presence of numbered streets and avenues is very common.
/Sugge
On 2018-02-20 01:15 PM, Viajero Perdido wrote:
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> But if that changes it so it's no longer "the name", logically that rule
> doesn't apply.
It seems that in the US cities in OSM that I've looked at, mappers have
been fairly (but not completely) consistent in using full quadrant
names: Northeast,
On 18-02-20 10:51 AM, Clifford Snow wrote:
"If the name can be spelled without an abbreviation, then don't
abbreviate it."
But if that changes it so it's no longer "the name", logically that rule
doesn't apply.
The name of my street ends in "NW". Changing it to end in "Northwest"
or "North
Here is what the wiki [1] has to say on the subject of names;
If the name can be spelled without an abbreviation, then don't abbreviate
it. Computers can easily shorten words, but not the other way (St. could be
Street or Saint). If the signs have abbreviated words and you don't know
what the full
I continue to assert that our (OSM's) name=* wiki states these
abbreviations should be fully expanded and that official_name=* might
hold the abbreviation.
Hi Everyone.
I'll pop in here because I'd hate to see this considered "discussed and
approved". (And replying a day late because I'm st
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