Re: “once someone told me that Eskimo people have dozens of different names for "snow"”
It’s a bit complex, starting with defining “Eskimo”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow Many Trans-New-Guinean languages here will use only one word for all water features, eg river, lake, spring, swamp are all “ok” meaning “water”. But of course they all understand that there is a difference between a flowing river and standing water in a lake. Fortunately English has an an unusually large vocabulary and is amenable to borrowing words, so it’s usually possible to invent a good tag for OSM purposes, based on English. On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:56 AM Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it> wrote: > Naaahhh... just "complex*" *or* "*complicated" (*I don't know which one > is better in English*)... :-) > On 2018-12-06 00:48, Paul Allen wrote: > > The real world is messy. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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