[Tagging] colour gray or grey ?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 21:57:01 UTC 2017


Gray is the US spelling of grey.

As British English should be used in OSM gray should be encouraged compared to gray.



On 05-Oct-17 08:42 AM, Steve Doerr wrote:
> gray is the spelling used by w3.org, e.g. at https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/. However, grey is the British English spelling, which is normally preferred for OSM tag values. So it probably makes sense to allow both.
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> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marc marc [mailto:marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 04 October 2017 22:08
> To: tag <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [Tagging] colour gray or grey ?
>
> Hello,
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:colour
> gray or grey ? I don't understand why wiki have 2 values.
>




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