If you want to be exhaustive, you can add another spelling variant as alt_name: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name For something as minor as St vs St., if there is no clear winner for a specific street, maybe match style of other streets around? On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, at 18:32, Colin Smale wrote: > Agreed, however I don't think we should be fussy about minor typographic > differences like apostrophes or full stops. There are often variations at > this level from sign to sign. If one bit is signed "St." and another bit of > the same road is signed "St" I think we should use a single style for the > whole road, taking it from the longest length. We can never determine where > the transition should go, and it is the same road after all, so consistency > is good.> //colin > > On 17 July 2017 18:35:07 CEST, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:>> We > should be applying the on the ground rule of verification. As in, if looks > like a duck and quacks like a duck then there is a better than average chance > it is a duck. So if the road sign, church sign or whatever says Saint or St. > etc then best to stick to that so as not to offend just as many people as > those who agree it’s wrong!>>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> PS Other deities are available >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Stuart Reynolds [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* 17 July 2017 13:45 >> *To:* Talk GB >> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] An old chestnut - looking for clarity for road names >> beginning "St ...">> >> >> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I have read and re-read all of the guidance and local rules relating to the >> use of abbreviations where it would be wrong to expand “St” into “Saint”. It >> is quite clear that, for the UK, “Saint Ives” is wrong, whereas “St Ives” is >> correct. There is also one page where I have found “St Mary’s Church” is >> correct, but “Saint Mary’s Church” is wrong. All of this I agree with.>> >> >> >> The question I want to clarify is the use of “Saint” in street names. I >> think that is similarly clear that e.g. “St Nicholas Road” (with the full >> expansion of “road”!) is correct, and “Saint Nicholas Road” isn’t. But since >> the small handful that I initially came across in Great Yarmouth were last >> edited by an experienced OSMer (Rob Whittaker), I thought that it was better >> to check with the community than just change it.>> >> >> >> A not-so-quick Overpass query (using a map which contained the whole of the >> UK, and hence Ireland and a bit of Belgium) tells me that there are 10,324 >> ways which are named “Saint *” which potentially need changing if we agree >> that “St *” is correct.>> >> >> >> By contrast there are 26,559 ways that are named “St *”, and a further 7,252 >> that are named “St. *”.>> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Stuart Reynolds >> >> >> >> for traveline south east & anglia >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _________________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
_______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
