IIRC Richard (Fairhust) placed a paragraph about St vs Saint on the wiki years ago, saying exactly why this should not be done. As an experienced journalist and editor (not OSM) he obviously has professional knowledge of the standard usage in British English. I think he also cited reputable style guides and dictionaries.
Correction it was on the old help site : https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/19609/saint-or-st-is-there-an-official-osm-policy/ J On Thu, 18 Sept 2025, 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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