Then there's Canada, which freely uses both spellings as equally acceptable... On Jul 18, 2014 12:53 PM, "John Packer" <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should british english be preferred? Yes. > Do we need to change shop=jewelry to shop=jewellery? No. > > Not remembering the spelling is not an issue when a tag is > well-established. > If you try to add this tag in most editors, you will either use a preset > or will have auto-complete help you with the spelling. > That's not something that "will" happen, it's something that already > happens. > > Jesse, as far as I know, AE is predominant in South America. > > > 2014-07-18 13:01 GMT-03:00 Christian Quest <cqu...@openstreetmap.fr>: > >> 2014-07-18 17:55 GMT+02:00 Jesse B. Crawford <je...@jbcrawford.us>: >> >> Something I've noticed as an American that works with many foreign >>> nationals is that the majority of people who learn English in a foreign >>> country seem to learn British English - my sample may be biased since I >>> work with a lot of people from India, which is a former colony, but amongst >>> people from China and Germany for example I am also used to seeing the >>> British spellings. >>> >>> Even being part of the (small around here it seems) group that's >>> inconvenienced by it, I think that it's important that the project >>> standardize on British English. In the case of existing tags people will >>> hopefully tend to use the spelling that's already predominant, but new tags >>> are being added at such a rate that it's still an issue. >>> >>> In the case of jewellery vs. jewelry (the former of which upsets my >>> en_US spellchecker), I would encourage automatically correcting "jewelry" >>> as a spelling error. Yes, there is value to looking at what tags currently >>> exist, but people who are writing queries against the dataset shouldn't >>> have to write several other queries just to take a guess at which spelling >>> is the "accepted" one. >>> >> >> >> American English is a fork... ;) >> >> -- >> Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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