Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> writes: > Unfortunately those trained in nautical matters is quite small. Most are > like me, a dock is something you walk out on from the shore. In some parts > of the country the docks are removed in the winter others are there > permanently.
Agreed that this is 99.9% of the usage. > Not sure how we fix iD. Should searching for dock in US_en default to > man_made=pier and a search for drydock result in man_made=dock? Probably yes. I suspect something where one is presented with tagging choices that have locale-specific hints is probably best, something like: man_made=pier (a place where you walk, adjacent to a boat in the water) waterway=dock (a place where a boat goes, often adjacent to a pier) and then the "translation" of the hint can really be the right text for that locale to explain the tag codepoint. Arguably searching for dock leading to only man_made=pier is best, because the people who know about the strict usage of pier vs dock are not the ones who need help; it's the other 99.9%.
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