On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:08 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 06:07, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, id (dunno about other editors) handles this by having aliases of 
>> certain terms.  Which would allow mappers to type in RV or mobile home, or 
>> caravan or anything else and get shop=whatever_we_decide.
> Yep, that's what I'm thinking about at the moment

I don't have JOSM to hand (I do my mapping at home, and I'm at work),
but I recall that some of its presets even have extra words to clarify
the meaning of terms, so that 'sac_score', for instance, has a
sentence quoted from the Wiki for each of the values. The maintainers
of editors should probably do something like that for whatever term is
chosen for RV, travel-trailer, caravan, ... because UK English doesn't
even *have* all the terms, and the terms that it does have are
understood differently in North America and Australia.

Essentially, I don't think we're going to come up with anything better
than 'do something arbitrary, and open tickets on the four or five
most-widely-used editors asking their maintainers for help.'

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