Hi! The easiest way is to add alt_name with abbreviation. Also if community agrees, it is possible to put abbreviation in the name tag (because of rendering name on the map), but use "Saint" as alt_name.
Best Regrads, Nemanja On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:18 AM Philip Mallis <phi...@philipmallis.com> wrote: > It depends on the context. St Kilda in Melbourne is another example where > that is used instead of 'Saint'. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 29 Jun 2018, at 10:28, cleary <o...@97k.com> wrote: > > In New South Wales, the Geographic Names Board register shows the Sydney > suburb Mount Druitt (no abbreviation) while the adjacent suburb is St Marys > (always St and never Saint). The same applies to places named St Peters and > St Leonards. Using the word "Saint" would not accord with the places' > official names. > > I understand there is a tendency to remove sectarian references so that > "St" can be pronounced as the speaker wishes and is not necessarily "Saint". > > > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 5:21 AM, Nathan Ginther (Insight Global Inc) > wrote: > > Hello all, our team has come into an interesting situation regarding road > name abbreviations, we know that as a policy we spell out any and all > abbreviations on the OSM map, however it looks like we may have run into an > exception in the use of “Saint vs St” ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Invalid_Abbreviation_Expansion). It > looks like the use of “St” instead of spelling out “Saint” is accepted > within the mapping community, and might be the proper English spelling, but > we want to get the response from the community as what is the > accepted/preferred use when naming roads specifically, should we be > spelling out Saint, or using St? > *_______________________________________________* > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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