[openstreetmap-website] Meaningful and disambiguating class/type labels (#52)

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 10/07/2012 09:56, Tom Hughes wrote:
> I had a bit of a discussion with the submitter of this on the pull
> request, and it seems that one fundamental question which arises is
> what exactly our "en" locale should be...
>
> Is it "British English" or "American English" or some sort of
> generic international english?

Traditionally in OSM, the lingua franca has been British English but 
avoiding terms that are likely to mislead in other contexts.

By analogy with the most common tags: everyone's happy with the tag 
"highway=motorway", even though the Americans would call it a freeway. 
However, the tag "highway=unclassified" is, I think, widely viewed as 
too idiosyncratically British and often misleading: were we doing it all 
over again we'd call it "highway=minor" (sadly it's a bit late for that 
now).

cheers
Richard