On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:51:22 -0800 (PST) Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote:
> Markus Lindholm wrote: > > If this tag designation is about formal status in the UK > > It isn't. It's about formal status, full stop. You could just as > easily use it to record that a European waterway is UNECE Class Vb. > > Richard > > > Well 'designation' isn't a good word for showing the formal status of something. I agree that it is a correct word, but it is a poor choice in a multilingual project. There are competing keys with similar meanings, which are distinct and also overlap. There is a key referring to 'what is on a sign' and a key referring to 'what is in the statute book', both of them based on designat*. I find them quite confusing, despite a very large number of years of using English, and for those with English as an additional language to their native one, it will be even more difficult. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
