On 15 February 2016 at 11:41, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2016-02-15 11:11 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl>: >> >> Basically you are saying that the English term matches the definition >> correctly, but that there exists a near-synonym in Germany that does >> not match the definition. I don't think that's enough reason to change >> the tag (or its definition). > > > > No, I say that there are 2 principal meanings / usages in English for the > term "government", one corresponding to the German usage, and one not, and > that this fact alone makes a different name for the tag desirable. Germany > was just an example, and of course there is a term for all branches together > in German (de: "Staatsgewalt"), and if I were to find a system that fitted > particularly well for Germany, I'd insist on distinguishing "Ämter" from > "Behörden" ;-) > > I guess the actual interpretation of the term "government" will heavily > depend on how the governance is organized, so I am not surprised that in the > UK which doesn't implement a strong separation of powers (legislative and > executive powers are intermingled, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system ), the term can refer to > both, legislation and the executive branch.
Thanks for the addition, I see what you mean now. Anyway I don't think this will lead to significant problems in practice, so I don't really see a need to change the proposal. -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
