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The N here looks more closely related to quarter addressing systems, like NW, SW, and so on? I've generally seen these retain the acronym form in Canada (all of Calgary and Edmonton are like that, for example).
IMHO we should expand to North if 6th Avenue North connected to 6th Avenue South, but not if it's a quarter and 6th Avenue S is in different part of town.
From my Ontarian point of view, personally I would expect a 6th Avenue North to run generally north-south, and a 6th Avenue East to run generally east-west (*). This street does not, supporting an argument that this is a quarter designation.
As a counterexample to Calgary and Edmonton, Seattle does expand their "NW"/"NW"/"N" etc quarter designations to format like "Northeast 65th Street". But we'd probably want to make the change along with other central/western Canadian cities, or keep consistent with them?
(*) in local reckoning - for example Montreal's "east" is northeast but they do use it consistently
Those are some good points you bring up!
With that being said, Regina doesn't really follow a strict quarter system in the same way that cities like Calgary do. For example, we don't refer to the avenues in the south as "Avenue S" - there is no "6th Avenue S", just a "6th Avenue" and a "6th Avenue N".
In addition, Regina also doesn't have numbered streets, just the avenues are numbered. There's no E/W designation there since the streets have completely different names (however, you will see them follow the same east-west position like numbered streets would - take a look at something like Argyle Street that is disconnected at many points).
A couple roads do have the East/West designation, but those are relatively rare, such as Dewdney Avenue/Dewdney Avenue East and Assiniboine Avenue/Assiniboine Avenue E. Even in this example, what counts as "east" is inconsistent.
Changing to 'North' is reasonable as that is what it signifies.
It separates 6th Ave N from 6th Ave 286951823.
However City data refers to it as 'N' so I'm fine with it being kept as is.
any update?
Going back to the example of Calgary, there was a long thread on talk-ca mailing list in December 2022 (so since the most recent comment here) about road suffix abbreviations specifically in Calgary and the result could IMO most charitably be classified as "no consensus to change" (thread beginning https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2022-December/010594.html ).
I haven't seen anything specifically about Regina or Saskatchewan, but nor have I seen anything that would indicate a consensus _for_ changing the current tagging here.