I see. Is hiking campaign better? On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>wrote:
> Zsolt Bertalan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Because there is no difference. What is the difference between a rugby > > match > > and a rugby union match? Nothing. Both of them are a rugby match. But > > rugby > > union match is more specific. > > In this case we need the general term. > > There are TMs that are not routes. They consist of checkpoints that > > you can > > visit anytime, in any order from any dircetion. And there are TMs like > > El > > Camino that consist of several routes. > > I think there are much more confusing terms in English than such a > > loan > > translation. > > > > And what about 'organised hiking tour'? That covers routes, walks, > > such > > movements with only checkpoints, etc., but doesn't sound good to me as > > a > > tagging key. It is confusing in an other way, because it covers more > > than I > > need (hiking tours without checkpoints). Argh. > > The problem is that, while English sometimes uses movement to mean "a group > of people with a common goal", it does not, at present, use movement to mean > "a series of actions to be taken to achieve that goal". So, an organization > of hikers might be termed a movement, but the routes along which they are > encouraged to hike would not be termed a movement. After all, the hikers > (and the people organizing the hikers) are the ones moving in both the > physical and metaphorical senses. The routes themselves take no action. > > This tag is more likely to be understood by English-speakers if you use a > less literal translation. > -- > John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not > to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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