[Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Emilie Laffray
<emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2010 12:57, Bégin, Daniel <Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:

[Adam said, OSM uses "centre" rather than "center" for most tags.  ]

>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does everyone agree with Adam's position?  It is still time to change that
>> kind of things...
>
> It would truly be more consistent indeed.
> Can't get tagwatch to confirm though.

Map Features confirms this and lists sports_centre, arts_centre,
community_centre, garden_centre and social_centre.  I hope that I
haven't typo'ed these. ;-)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

OsmDoc also confirms that "_centre" is preferred in the wild.  The
OsmDoc data is from last August, and shows 12,000 instances of
"sports_centre", but only 16 of "sports_center".
http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/leisure/#values

This applies for leisure and amenity tags, etc. but not for name tags.
 If the sign says, "My Town Community Center" in the US, then

leisure=community_centre
name="My Town Community Center"

is the way to tag it.