Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, pavithran wrote: Hi, I was very much surprised that a football ( the ball kicked by foot) which I tagged has shown a different ball in osmarendering . It is showing a ball used by american football . Some of the IRC discussion I had said that its 'ambiguous' though I

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: As a worldwide project which name should we prefer ? soccer in US and Canada and football everywhere else. Pieren ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/27 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: As a worldwide project which name should we prefer ? soccer in US and Canada and football everywhere else. -1, AFAIK we use soccer in Germany, Italy and probably elsewhere, while

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/06/2010 14:25, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer a écrit : soccer in US and Canada and football everywhere else. -1, AFAIK we use soccer in Germany, Italy and probably elsewhere, while football refers to american football (looking at the icons, preset icons, etc.). Cheers, Martin I thought

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: -1, AFAIK we use soccer in Germany, Italy and probably elsewhere, while football refers to american football (looking at the icons, preset icons, etc.). - -1 AFAIK we tag what people see and use daily. As

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Pieren pier...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: -1, AFAIK we use soccer in Germany, Italy and probably elsewhere, while football refers to american football (looking at the icons, preset icons, etc.). - -1 AFAIK we

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Richard Mann
If you say football in en-GB then you mean the game run by the Football Association in England, and by FIFA internationally. If you say Rugby, you mean whichever of the two codes is dominant in your part of the country / social circle (and probably Rugby Union by default). At least the ball's the

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/6/27 Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com: In my opinion, football being multi-interpretable, the name should not be used for either. sport=soccer is 100% clear, sport=american_football also is. sport=football can be different things, and therefore is to be avoided except if for whatever

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: By looking at all of these it should become obvious that soccer is the preferred tag (also by numbers where soccer is used more than 10 times as often as football). Expecting that american football dedicated

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Jason Cunningham
Yes, the wiki needs to be changed to tell people not to use the insulting word 'soccer', especially as we try to use British English to stop tags getting confusing. Just using sport=football would be confusing, so I prefer sport=association_football I would also guess that using the insulting term

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 June 2010 10:48, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: rugby, or Australian_football, and avoid the use of Rugby is ambiguous as well, which can mean either rugby union or rugby league... As Liz wrote early on both of which are also referred to as football :)

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Tsunami warning siren?

2010-06-27 Thread John Smith
emergency=siren ? I'm sure this sort of thing deserves it's own category. On 6/28/10, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-06-27 00:24, Alan Mintz wrote: Is the device near the upper right of this pic: http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/TsunamiAlert.jpg a tsunami

Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Hope
On 28 June 2010 10:26, Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, the wiki needs to be changed to tell people not to use the insulting word 'soccer', especially as we try to use British English to stop tags getting confusing. Just using sport=football would be confusing, so I prefer