Hi all,
During the discussion of cleaning up municipality names in Canada, it
was suggested that the addr:city could be removed entirely if the
appropriate boundaries are defined. I would hazard to guess (and
will endeavour to investigate) that the addr:city and the boundaries
do not always
To start the cleanup process, the following *Ontario* cities are being
changed (remove "City of" or "City Of"). Once that is done, I'll
come back with the next batch to process...
The idea to remove the city name in its entirety will require careful
consideration to ensure the necessary boun
Nice work, I forgot to mention that removing City Of makes bilingual
procesaing easier too. As you wont have "Ville de City of Toronto"
On Feb 16, 2018 12:43 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote:
> To start the cleanup process, the following *Ontario* cities are being
> changed (remove "City of" or "City
I typically remove these tags when I come across them, as yes, I've heard
the same argument that they're redundant.
I like all this cleanup you've been doing with phone numbers, addresses,
etc. Kudos!
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the discussion of
On Feb 16, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
> St. Catharines, St. Thomas, Sault Ste. Marie
I dislike sounding nit-picky, this really is meant as constructive criticism,
but let's expand these names so there are no abbreviations. Our wiki
https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Names says "If the name
http://saultstemarie.ca/
thats how its written. even on signs to there
On Feb 16, 2018 3:47 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea"
wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
> > St. Catharines, St. Thomas, Sault Ste. Marie
>
> I dislike sounding nit-picky, this really is meant as construc
See also:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/19609/saint-or-st-is-there-an-official-osm-policy
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:50 PM James wrote:
> http://saultstemarie.ca/
>
> thats how its written. even on signs to there
>
> On Feb 16, 2018 3:47 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea"
> wrote:
>
>> On Feb
We (the USA) has many sources which "say" St. Louis (Missouri) but OSM has
name=Saint Louis. The latter is correct in an OSM context. Following our
wiki, CAN the name be spelled without an abbreviation?" If yes, then please do
so.
Thanks,
SteveA
> On Feb 16, 2018, at 12:50 PM, James wrote:
Sorry, accidentally pressed reply instead of reply all:
Those are the official names, for example:
http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FDJFN
http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FDTCR
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Kevin Farrugia
On Feb 16, 2018 3:50 PM, "James" wrote:
> http://saultstemar
Chiming in as a years-long resident-neighbour of St. Catharines, I
have to concur - it is always abbreviated - city's official
https://www.stcatharines.ca/en/ , regional government e.g.
https://www.niagararegion.ca/transit/routes.aspx
St. James's Park and St. John's Wood in London in England are "
I stand corrected, thank you everybody.
BTW I do my best not to abbreviate thinks like "DC" for District of Columbia,
but I now better understand that "St." in many cases has now truly become the
official name, abbreviation included.
SteveA
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I'm going to make here to the unpopular argument that in OSM tagging "St."
should always be written as "Saint".
I know that you will never see "Sault Sainte Marie" on a sign, map or official
document and that seeing it written like that looks weird and even wrong to
local residents. In much th
We call it TALK-ca for a reason! We call it OPENStreetMap for a reason!
Consensus doesn't always come easy! Thanks to everyone for good discussion.
SteveA
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the only expanded version of the city name was in french, and on wikipedia:
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault-Sainte-Marie_(Ontario)
Maybe because people(English) have trouble spelling "Sainte"?
On Feb 16, 2018 5:38 PM, "Tristan Anderson"
wrote:
> I'm going to make here to the unpopular arg
With "street" in a street name, it's clear to most everyone that Pine St is
an abbreviation and Pine Street is the correct unabbreviated Canadian
English version. It is not clear to me that "Saint Catharines" is the
correct unabbreviated version of the city's name. In fact it looks
incorrect to me.
On Feb 16, 2018, at 2:56 PM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote:
> With "street" in a street name, it's clear to most everyone that Pine St is
> an abbreviation and Pine Street is the correct unabbreviated Canadian English
> version. It is not clear to me that "Saint Catharines" is the correct
> unabbrevi
In my OSM map updates to remove of "City of" and similar prefixes from
locality names, I will not be expanding any "St", "Ste" or any other
abbreviations of those names. If the name (minus the prefix to be
removed) matches what is in NRCan database, I will remove the prefix;
if it doesn't, I w
My favourite is Moose Factory. I think Canadian typonomy was the consesus
last time we had the same subject come up
On Feb 16, 2018 7:14 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote:
> In my OSM map updates to remove of "City of" and similar prefixes from
> locality names, I will not be expanding any "St", "Ste"
I thought I would post this article that I recently came across, and I would
like to gauge how Canadian contributors to OSM would react to this. It came
across as a bit disconcerting to me, but it in no way affects my enthusiasm for
OSM, given just how much I enjoy contributing to it.
https://
It would seem to me that an official place name should take precedence over OSM
protocols. If we expand the abbreviations (or contractions), of St. and Ste.,
then are we not altering the official place name of the feature?
The federal government downloaded that responsibility to the provinces, a
On Feb 16, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Bill & Kathy Patterson
wrote:
> It would seem to me that an official place name should take precedence over
> OSM protocols. If we expand the abbreviations (or contractions), of St. and
> Ste., then are we not altering the official place name of the feature?
>
> T
Matthew, "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" is a good one. I have driven through "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" on my way from NB to Montreal. Growing up in NS I have always been intrigued by long French names in NB like S
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