The iD translations are handled through Transifex 
https://www.transifex.com/organization/ideditor/dashboard/id-editor 
<https://www.transifex.com/organization/ideditor/dashboard/id-editor>

So if there is an issue with the way the translations appear in Brazil, you 
should be able to log in to transifex and fix it there.
Thanks, Bryan



> On Apr 15, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Lists <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have problems in Brazil with the abiguity of translation of the word 
> “dam”, resulting in new users tagging the waterbody as waterway=dam 
> (translates represa), instead of the dam structure (translates represa). It 
> seems like both the namespace (waterway) and the fact that iD only shows tags 
> as labels are adding to this confusion
> 
> Since the dam structure is a man_made construction, I suggest that the tag 
> should be moved into that namespace. Currently we should abandon (deprecate) 
> the tag waterway=dam to avoid conflicts with existing tagging scheme, and 
> maybe in the future allow this tag to mean the waterbody of the dam. Today I 
> had to explain to a user why he couldn’t use waterway=dam on the waterbody, 
> and he seemed confused about using landuse=reservior (which also should 
> translate to represa). I do not know how these things are translated in iD, 
> maybe some of this confusion could be solved with improved translations?
> 
> Anyway, since the dam is a man_made structure I think it is about time this 
> is corrected in the tagging namespace also. This tag is quite old, and have 
> many uses, so a transition from waterway=dam to man_made=dam will be a timely 
> long process. If consensus is that the man_made namespace is more propitiate, 
> the new tag should be added (maybe in a mechanical edit) to existing tags, 
> let data consumers get sufficient time to update stylesheets, etc, before 
> removing the old tag from the database.
> 
> Aun Johnsen
> 
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