In Great Britain it's soccer 950, football 600, association_football nil By all means add association_football as an additional option (as a synonym for soccer for those that prefer it), but there's no need to try to deprecate soccer.
Richard On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jason Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > And I'm about to edit it back to sport=association_football..... > > The use of soccer should never have crept in to OSM. I've made it clear that > I think the use of soccer will be very controversial in the UK. I could > never participate in a project that labelled my teams football ground as > sport=soccer. A vast number of British 'football' supporters will feel far > stronger about this than me, and I believe it would lead to a serious and > continuous vandalism of OSM. > > The solution is not even controversial. Just call the sport by its proper > full name "association football". It's easy to change the wiki and JOSM, and > there a people running bots that are designed to change tags like this. > Where's the profit in starting a 'war' with several thousand British > 'football supporters' when all that is needed is to tag the sport with it's > official name? > > This had given me a small weekend project, I'm off to find the UK > 'association football' grounds and add sport=assocation_football, the name > of the ground, and team > > Jason > > On 29 June 2010 14:58, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can people please stop changing sport=soccer to >> sport=association_football on the >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Football page, I'm just going to >> keep reverting the changes because as it now stands sport=soccer is >> the most used and most accepted tagging for this sport. >> >> It's not acceptable to change things through the back door just >> because you aren't accustomed to this and most people participating in >> this thread were not supportive of this change. >> >> If you think people may not understand that >> soccer=association_football then write a tagging guideline page, >> people already do this for other tags that may be unintuitive due to >> regional and cultural backgrounds. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
