> A blanket rule that anything with "Square" in the name must be mapped as place=square is as defective as one saying that anything with "Maes" in the name must be mapped as a field.
Right, and it only works for languages that have a shared cultural heritage (European languages). In Indonesian, features that are like squares are named with the same word used for grassy fields and meadows: "lapangan", and parks use the same word as "garden": "taman". That is why we need an actual definition of place=square that isn't simply "a town square", because I need to be able to translate it into Indonesia, for people who have never seen a European town square. I suspect that Japanese and Korean will have the same problem, along with many other non-European languages. -- Joseph Eisenberg On 3/23/20, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 19:56, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > On 22. Mar 2020, at 20:46, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > So you say it's purely about the name. Then, later in your response, >> contradict >> > yourself. >> >> >> let me put it like this: it’s a very strong indication. >> > > I disagree. There's a housing development a few miles from me. It's in > what used to be a field belonging to the vicarage just north of it. The > field was called "Maes Rheithordy" which is Welsh for "Vicarage Field." > The housing development is called "Maes Rheithordy" (that is the > street name in the addresses). Should I map it as residential land > use with houses on it or should I map it as a field because of the "Maes" > in the name? > > In my town there are housing estates Maesglas, Maesycoed and > Maes-y-Dderwen, all named after the fields that used to be there. > And North Park, which is a housing estate not a park. > > Name alone is not a good indicator of usage or how something should be > mapped. At best it's a clue as to what might be there now. A blanket > rule that anything with "Square" in the name must be mapped as > place=square is as defective as one saying that anything with > "Maes" in the name must be mapped as a field. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
