On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, pavithran wrote: > Hi, > I was very much surprised that a football ( the ball kicked by foot) > which I tagged has shown a different ball in osmarendering . It is > showing a ball used by american football . > > Some of the IRC discussion I had said that its 'ambiguous' though I > don't agree to the ambiguous property because even americans play for > FIFA where the F means Football ! > > But showing up a American football for places tagged with football is > really suprising . > How do we tag football ? > I was suggested to use sport=soccer for football while sport=football > for american football ! I really felt so alien :( > > Some interesting things I found were : > "Of the 45 national FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football > Association) affiliates in which English is an official or primary > language, 43 use football in their organizations' official names (only > Canada and United States use soccer). " > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word) > > As a worldwide project which name should we prefer ? > > Regards, > Pavithran Where I live there are FOUR games played all called "football". Only one really uses the feet on the ball Really we should use full names which are clear and not use "football" at all Soccer Rugby League Rugby Union Australian Rules American Football (extras welcome)
I just noted that JOSM had a "rugby" preset which didn't actually cover what I needed - I needed rugby league for that particular sportsground _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
