On 11/06/19 09:41, Paul Allen wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 00:21, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com
<mailto:yuriastrak...@gmail.com>> wrote:
There is currently 267 key & tags on OSM wiki with mismatching
STATUS field, as seen in http://tinyurl.com/y62j5m5e -
e.g. amenity=fast_food has status=defacto in 10 languages, except
German where it is marked as status=in use. Clearly this is not
intentional, and should be the same in all languages.
If everything should be the same in all languages then we only need
one language. Oh, you
didn't mean everything, just certain phrases describing status. But
I'm fairly sure that not every
language uses the word "approved" to mean approved, so obviously we
need a language-
specific translation of the term.
Here's the thing. In terms of OSM statuses, "de facto" means that the
tag is in use.
Err I thought
'de facto' = "approved" but before the formal approval process was in place
'in use' = widely used and in large numbers, sufficient to be recognised
by renders
' undefined' = low numbers, or restricted use .. some incorrectly place
these as 'in use'
There should be a list of these ??? with their meaning. My wikifoo
deserts me. It should be easier to find..
So you
appear to be complaining that idiomatic German prefers not to use a
phrase from a dead
language to describe a tag's status as being in use.
I'm not convinced you chose a good example. Ones where the mismatch
is between "approved"
and "in use" are a definite mismatch which need correcting. I'd be
inclined to leave "in use" as
a German synonym for "de facto" unless people who have German as a
first language say that
"de facto" would be acceptable. Not all languages borrow phrases from
Latin, and in some
languages "de facto" is incomprehensible gibberish. Mutatis mutandis,
of course.
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