Brilliant!
>
http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/handegg.jpg
May
I use it?
Anyway, going seriously
I think Martin has been
misunderstood.
In Italy we currently use "calcio"
our
federation is F.I.G.C.
That means literaly
Federation. Italian.
Game. Calcio
my home town team is "Calcio Catania"
whose official website is http://www.calciocatania.it/
I think
Martin has been misunderstood, some of them use soccer on tagging in
OSM and to avoid misunderstandings when speaking with people not able
to distinguish a ball from an egg and a hand from a foot.
Just kidding.
The first time I have known the
term soccer was buying an American game on "calcio".
The
question is which language we have to use for tagging?
If
we want to endorse British English as our standard we have to
use it not only for soccer/football disambiguation but also for
footway/sidewalk since footway as in the oxford dictionary is mainly
a British term infact it is not in the WordNet linguistic resource
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
developed in Princeton.
Or we have to define an OSM lingo?
The probem basically stands in the
ambiguity of the project.
We have three conflicting issues in the
project.
The project is OpenStreetMAP
and some users, like me, are proud of their job if they see a nice
map coming from their edits. Therefore rendering for someone is a
priority.
The
project define itself like the wikipedia for maps, but in wikipedia
you can edit in your own language as in all web application where
you tag something. Moreover in the wiki there is, you
can use any tag you like
I would like to tag in Italian then and this statement allow me to
do it but it is conflicting with point 1.
But
another motto is tag
for the database don't tag for the render
that is also conflicting with point 2.
The
only way to overcome such inconsistencies as
OSM is now is:
abandon
point 2 and decide a standard either british or american english or a
OSM lingo, but I do not like this.
I
prefer a smart development of the project to resemble more like
wikipedia.
Cheers
Gianfranco
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