2010/5/19 John Smith <[email protected]>: > how about using man_made=gps_monitoring_station instead then?
yes, I'd say that's much better, even though I would probably stick a note that this is about plate tectonics monitoring. > While that is a nice idea, it doesn't pan out that way in reality for > various reasons, eg I'm a native english speaker and had no idea what > highway=ford meant, to me it's a causeway but to OSM a causeway is > something completely different, you are going to get regional > differences that will necessitate wiki lookups or localised > translations even from english in a different regional version of > english. yes, I guess it helps more to speak German ;-). In German highway=ford translates to "Furt" and this is the definition in OSM. Mostly you can guess the meaning of tags by typing them into an English-German-dictionary and look up the various meanings in German. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
