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, and in
Ontario the official place names appear
athttp://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/Geonames/Index.html?site=Geographic_Names&viewer=Geonames&locale=en-US
Bill Patterson
From: Kevin Farrugia <kevinfarru...@gmail.com>
To: James <james2...@gmail.com>
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names
Sorry, accidentally pressed reply instead of reply all:
Those are the official names, for example:http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/
search-place-names/unique/ FDJFNhttp://www4.rncan.gc.ca/
search-place-names/unique/ FDTCR
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Kevin Farrugia
On Feb 16, 2018 3:50 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/Name s says "If the name can be spelled without an
abbreviation, then don't abbreviate it."
Thanks,
SteveA
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