Hey Cameron,

Cool to see others people editing Toronto transit in OSM! I was hoping to get your thoughts on the stop names:

The 511 stops were previously named as they are announced on the streetcars (audio and text). So for example "Bastion Street". The reasoning for this was that this is the name most likely to be encountered by people using this data in the real world: an app would tell you to get off at "Bastion Street" and you'd get off when the streetcar announces "Bastion Street".

TTC's official names for these have streets that the route is on (e.g. Fleet Street) but this isn't really used during the trip itself as far as I could tell. Nor is the full name on transit shelters, and there's usually no names on the stop poles.

Another thing is that the TTC uses "West Side", "East Side" suffixes where the stop isn't before the intersection with the street named, but this suffix isn't announced on the streetcar, and the distinction is sometimes confusing (e.g. "Fleet St at Bastion St" and "Fleet St at Bastion St West Side" are actually both on the west side).

I might be missing some benefits of having the long stop names used in OSM - what are they?

Also the official TTC names use abbreviations "St", "Ave", "Blvd" etc which we should expand to "Street", "Avenue", "Boulevard" - everything generally accepted to be an abbreviation is expanded in names in OSM.

Curious to hear your thoughts!