[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add Nominatim description terms (PR #6533)

Andy Allan notifications at github.com
Wed Dec 3 18:38:52 UTC 2025


gravitystorm left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6533)

```
public_transport: "Public Transportation District"
highway: "Road Right of Way"
```
These two are both fine for American-English, but sound very weird to British-English ears. We don't have an equivalent term to "Right of Way" as used by Americans. Additionally, "Right of Way" has a distinct meaning in the UK, which is related to access rights and not landuse.

```
crossing: "Railway-Path Crossing"
```
I'd either accept this as-is, or use "Pedestrian Railway Crossing" (i.e. using Pedestrian as a modifier to the term general term Railway Crossing).

In summary, I'm fine to merge these as `en.yml` can tolerate Americanisms and us Brits just need to rely on `en-GB.yml` fixing such things :smile:

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