Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:57:14 +0100
From: Wolfgang Zenker <[email protected]>
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Can OSM become a geospacial database?
* Eugene Podshivalov <[email protected]> [181209 12:34]:
вс, 9 дек. 2018 г. в 14:10, Marc Gemis <[email protected]>:
We have tags for that (waterway=stream, ditch, ... / amenity=school,
college, university, kindergarten), I don't understand why we should
change the usage of name for that.
How would you map American "streamlet", "brook", "creek" and "river" to the
two generic "stream" and "river" in OSM?
Currently they are just putting in the name field, so the only ways to fide
all "brooks" is by searching the name fields which is not a proper database
approach.
Most probably you would not want to look for all "brooks", because
"brook" is just one of multiple words that mean the same thing. There is
no semantic difference between a "brook" and a "stream" in general
nowadays. Its just that in different regions of the english speaking
world different words were commonly used, and people in America used
whatever word they were familiar with.
Wolfgang
( lyx @ osm )
So true.
Mark
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