On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:42 AM, sabas88 <[email protected]> wrote: > Take the examples of dentist and prison, they > aren't "pleasant" (http://www.wordreference.com/definition/amenity) :)
Perhaps "facility" would be a better word for such things? There are some tags I'd very much like to see changed, but I've held back from suggesting changes because I assumed that I'd just get told it's too late, and nothing would happen... I'll list the ones that jar most with me, anyway. Some of these are just mismatches between the common English use of a word and how we use it in the tagging scheme. power = station for electricity substations; I think these should be power = substation power = generator for what I usually call "power stations"; I think these should be power = station, and power = generator should be for the main piece of electromechanical equipment within them (just as we have power = transformer for the actual transformers within a substation) landuse = forest for non-naturally-occurring woodland; the word "forest" as I understand it means something much larger than a wood, but there are many small woods in England that have clearly been planted deliberately but are not really a forestry operation; every time I enter "natural = wood" for them I'm aware that they're probably not natural. However, I'm not sure what to suggest for a tree-covered area that is neither really natural nor a proper plantation. I remember there was some discussion about land use vs land cover; perhaps describing somewhere as being covered in trees (and optionally indicating that it's a commercial operation) might be better. Likewise, there are many lake-like or pond-like things that are clearly not natural, but don't really match my understanding of the term "reservoir". (Perhaps more of them should be "basin"s? But those seem fairly specific.) Anyway, this is partly just fussing about the mismatch between natural language and a more formal language, I guess. __John _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
