[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Copyedit English localization as American English (PR #5029)

[Minh Nguyễn]

@1ec5 commented on this pull request.



>            passing_place: "Passing Place"
           path: "Path"
-          pedestrian: "Pedestrian Way"
-          platform: "Platform"
+          pedestrian: "Pedestrian Mall"

“Pedestrian mall” has historically been the preferred term in American English, as seen in [Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pedestrian+mall%2Cpedestrian+precinct%2Cpedestrian+road%2Cpedestrian+zone&year_start=1920&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US&smoothing=3). However, I appear to be dating myself: “pedestrian street” is more popular in the last several years, and “pedestrian zone” is also becoming common. That’s the term [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_zone) uses too, to avoid favoring American/Australian terms over the British term “pedestrian precinct”. “Pedestrian road” appears to be very rare.

![A screenshot of Google Books Ngram Viewer showing “pedestrian mall” as by far the preferred term in American English from 1940, peaking in the 1970s, until “pedestrian street” overtook it in 2016. “Pedestrian zone” also ties with it as of 2021. “Pedestrian precinct” and “pedestrian road” are virtually unknown in this dialect.](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/23866dda-a3a5-45f8-95e6-53433ee945ea)

I think “pedestrian street” would be intuitive and pretty close to your suggestion. “Pedestrian zone” would be problematic because it too strongly suggests an area, whereas this tag can validly appear on a way.

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