"Removing" amenity=drinking_water is to be excluded as an option. It is used more than 200000 times. Volker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 17:02, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 15:27, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> > wrote: > >> >> If, in Britain, a fountain is normally a ornamental fountain, that >> shouldn't restrict the possibility of widening its meaning to encompass the >> reality in other countries, >> > > OSM tag names and values use British English where possible. There's a > reason > for that: mappers from around the world are exposed to tag names and > values and > they have to know how to interpret them. This is difficult enough when > they are > in British English, but it becomes impossible if mappers have to guess that > words that are recognizably English are being used with meanings in > randomly-chosen languages. It's bad enough having to look up the British > English meaning, it's even harder to guess which language should be used > to interpret the tag. Are we using the French interpretation of > "fountain" or > the Italian interpretation or...? > > Call it cultural imperialism if you wish, but OSM uses British English for > tagging. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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