2011/1/9 Stephen Hope <slh...@gmail.com>: > I'm starting to be convinced that there is a cultural disconnect with > the word craft. To me (and I suspect most English speakers) there has > to almost be an arts aspect for something to be a craft. Whereas I'm > starting to get the impression the German use is closer to what I > think of as trade or profession, and this is the way the tag is being > used.
yes, (because there is e.g. the DE:"chamber of craft"=Handwerkskammer which is (was before EU introduced different rules) regulating the right to exercise a certain profession). But they are not in charge of all professions but only for some --- for a German mapper this might be a "natural" division, while for the rest of us it may be simply not logical / transparent ;-) As it doesn't actually matter which words for tags we use, as long as their use is generally agreed (see highway for instance), I could go on with craft in the way it is currently defined. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
