> 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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