Re: [OSM-talk] Dialects of English | Re: iD influencing tagging

2019-04-10 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Excellent point Rory, thx. We can already enter tag description in data items in many English variants, e.g. Patois or Canadian or even Old English :), and iD editor will automatically get the right one when showing tag info. There is now a discussion on how to region-limit tags too (this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Dialects of English | Re: iD influencing tagging

2019-04-10 Thread Volker Schmidt
I don't think there is a solution this, except better localization of > software. Or we all just switch to Esperanto or Irish or something. > Esperanto is a solution, and we use it in OSM, only that OSM's Esperanto is British English Volker ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Dialects of English | Re: iD influencing tagging

2019-04-10 Thread Yves
Please note that ID make a pretty good job in localization. I'd say that to influence tags meaning, the Transifex tasks, open to any contributors, is a more powerful tool than iD code and pressets. Yves___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Dialects of English | Re: iD influencing tagging

2019-04-10 Thread Rory McCann
A better example might be "college", which has different meanings in different dialects of English, or "gallon" or "football" I don't think there is a solution this, except better localization of software. Or we all just switch to Esperanto or Irish or something. If you want real fun, just