To be fair, the wiki page does then go on to state counterexamples, and calls out the use of "St" for "Saint" in British place names, but this is obviously not prominent enough on the page if it's been missed by the contributor in question.
Regards, *Paul* On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 17:29, Paul Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > He's citing this wiki page. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations > > That's as may be but that page is also wrong; in the opening paragraph: "( > *St.* could be *Street* or *Saint*)" - could be but never is. Context > matters and is easily coded for by any renderer. Expanding "St" to "Saint" > in the UK is, then, not only tagging for the renderer but also not ground > truth either! > > Regards, > *Paul* > > On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 12:52, Dave F via Talk-GB < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> A contributor has been creating various changesets in London & the South >> coast changing names of streets & building etc. from 'St' to saint. Such as: >> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/171594660 >> >> He's citing this wiki page. >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations >> >> The comment I left in it's discussion page: >> >> "This behaviour needs to be stopped. If the official name is 'St', to >> represent 'saint', as listed in street gazetteers or signage, then that is >> how it should be in the name tag (ground truth as it's known in OSM). If >> computer programmers (not computers) can't write code to distinguish >> abbreviations then they probably shouldn't be contributing to OSM." >> >> I think these changesets should be reverted. >> >> Opinions welcome. >> >> DaveF >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >
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