[Tagging] AE and BE orthography in tagging

Volker Schmidt voschix at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 15:17:14 UTC 2015


I was to say that "soccer" is BE, but then I found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
:-)

On 27 April 2015 at 16:36, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 2015-04-27 13:58 GMT+02:00 Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>:
>
>>
>> I'm sure there will be others.
>>
>
>
> the "sidewalk" key comes to mind.
> In this case, the descision was taken deliberately because "pavement" and
> "footway" seemed ambiguous or easily confusable.
>
>
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>> In the case of shop=jewelry, most data consumers only support the US
>> spelling. Usage stats for the UK spelling are currently about 1,1%.
>>
>
>
> the main rendering style does support both spellings, i.e. also map styles
> that fork this style will have support for both spellings. Generally I
> believe this tag is of minor interest to many OSM data users (compared e.g.
> to routing relevant things like subways and sidewalks).
>
> The other tags you mention:
> - railway=subway -> not sure why this was chosen, "underground" seems a
> reasonable BE candidate while the "metro" term seems to be Paris-related in
> English.
> - highway=elevator -> not sure either, there is minor use of highway=lift
> as well.
> - sport=soccer -> I remember a discussion some years ago where "soccer"
> was deliberately chosen because "football" seemed to lead to confusion
> (american football).
>
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> If there is interest, we could change the first 2 (subway, elevator) as
> well (or start a change process). I would exclude the tags that have been
> formerly discussed and deliberately chosen in a non-British form (sidewalk,
> soccer).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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