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 "St."s too, not expanded. --Jarek On 16 February 2018 at 21:56, OSM Volunteer stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > 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 <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> http://saultstemarie.ca/ >> >> thats how its written. even on signs to there >> >> On Feb 16, 2018 3:47 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <stevea...@softworkers.com> >> wrote: >> On Feb 16, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> 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 can be spelled >> without an abbreviation, then don't abbreviate it." >> >> Thanks, >> SteveA >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Jarek Piórkowski I have a PGP key: 0xD8B00764962E826B _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
