I can speak to Maple, living a few km north of it. The OSM wiki
states:—CLIP—Use place=suburb to identify a major area in a place=town or
place=city with a distinct and recognised local name and identity. Suburbs may
have uncertain boundaries, may overlap with other suburbs, and are often best
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,
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