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 > >
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