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use correct word for restrooms in default en-US translation #419

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@westnordost westnordost commented Mar 10, 2022

amenity=toilets are correctly referred to Restrooms in American-English. "Toilets" seem to be considered vulgar.

I don't know if "toilets" is acceptable in British-English, but for that, a translation is maintained in Transifex.

This change was triggered by a discussion on the #language channel on OSM-Slack where I asked whether it would be weird to say "This toilet has a baby changing table"
The overwhelming answer was "yes" as a "toilet" is simply understood as the thing you take a shit on, not the room + facilities. But amenity=toilets is supposed to be the room + facilities.

amenity=toilets are restrooms in en-US. "Toilets" is understood, but considered vulgar.
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I agree that "restroom" is the correct term in US English.

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'toilets' are perfectly acceptable in British English, and not at all vulgar.

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westnordost commented Mar 24, 2022

(Same in German. ) But well, that explains why the tag is amenity=toilets and not amenity=restrooms as the tags use in general British English. The source strings for localization of the iD presets are however in American English.

For British English, a translation is maintained on transifex ( https://www.transifex.com/openstreetmap/id-editor/ ) where all strings that differ between British and American English are added in the English (United Kingdom) localization.

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