On 21/12/2007, Hanno Böck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I wondered how tags should be named if the used word can be american or > british english (e.g. everything that contains centre/center in some way). > > I wouldn't care which one to take, but I think there should be some policy for > that case.
well, the englishman in me gets indignant and says 'use the true queen's english' of course.... but that starts lots of arguments and is ridiculous i presume this is for things like 'The Arndale Centre' i.e. proper nouns (names) of buildings/areas etc? in which case, the spelling is dependent on whatever the owner of the structure chooses. if they spell it 'centre', then it's 'centre'. if they spell it 'center', then it's 'center'. if they spell it 'senterr' then it's 'senterr'. imo we're here to reflect reality, not make political or otherwise statements about the validity of any language or dialect over any other or maybe it's for the name of the actual tag key? in that case, it doesn't really matter - whatever the proposer comes up with. i would hope there wouldn't be any silly arguments over which to use, so long as everyone sticks to it when they map or do the renderers check for alternative spellings? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
