Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

I have summarized the discussion we had here over the last week or so  on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines for easy reference in the future.  It is: Municipality Names Municipality names are to be spelt according to how they are listed in NRCan

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names (Jarek Piórkowski)

On 2018-02-19 05:08 PM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > Have you passed by talk-gb? They have a fair amount of "St" names and > some authority as to how to do things in OSM. The UK has Bury St Edmunds, Chapel St Leonards, Lytham St Annes, Ottery St Mary, St Andrews, St Anne, St Austell, St Blazey,

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names (Jarek Piórkowski)

> On 2018-02-19 05:08 PM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: >> Have you passed by talk-gb? They have a fair amount of "St" names and >> some authority as to how to do things in OSM. I haven't, but I shall. As I say quite a bit (in our wiki, e.g. California/Railroads), "it's complicated around here."

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

Matthew, Just one concern - Removing of addr:city. I encourage people to include addr:city since it's part of their mailing address and could easily be outside of the city limits. While addr:city isn't needed inside of city boundaries since it can be obtained from their spatial location, does make

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

Hi John, If we want to be able generate mailing addresses from OSM (is that a valid use case?), then whatever the city address Canada Post thinks we are in needs to be tagged in some fashion.   Google maps and Bing maps both think I'm in "Kanata".  OSM thinks I'm in "Kanata North". Both are

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > Hi Clifford, > > (It was good to meet you at SOTM US last year). > > Thanks for your comments... The situation with addr:city appears to me to > be more complex than the situation with addr:province/addr:country, along

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

Thank you, Matthew. As I said, "slavishly follow rules," no, not necessarily. "Understand the issues," yes, through good dialog. I like what I see here, it allows good consensus to emerge, tedious and perhaps even a bit annoying as it may be. :-) SteveA On Feb 19, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Matthew

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names in Ontario

On 2018-02-18 11:04 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > >   2 Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville (Stouffville) Like so many post-Amalgamation towns, Whitchurch-Stouffville is the official name (http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/FDOLC). There are some real doozies out there:

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names (Jarek Piórkowski)

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:56:20 +0100 > From: Jarek Piórkowski > Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names > Message-ID: