On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 05:29:51PM +0100, Paul Berry 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!
Good luck with: Baldersby St James (https://openstreetmap.org/way/238310167) versus Melbourne St Allotments (https://openstreetmap.org/way/240165905) Also nice: Back St Anne's Street (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176873018) 2nd St Martin's Scouts (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1350968388) What's not to love about OpenStreetMap. Sarah > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
