On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with the "what does it feel like" part, but not "what the locals > call it". One of the central issues in tagging in OSM is that words are > used for a specific meaning (usually UK usage, as we know) and the point > is to have a consistent labeling of things around the world, even if > local language is different. So that leads to "what would someone from > the UK, but who had lived in the area for a year, call it?" > What procedure do you recommend for those of us who don't have expatriate Britons on call? We Americans are, as you are well aware, entirely ignorant of cultures other than our own. (And would the thing be called by the same word in Glasgow or Cardiff as it would in London?) To misquote Shaw (who, as an Irishman, could presumably take a neutral point of view [yeah, right!]), the US and the UK are two nations divided by their common language. "The Queen's English? Of course I can speak the Queens English. I was born in Queens."
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