Merriam Webster and some other resources you have quoted are dictionary for American English, not the variant of English used by OSM. Posts by original author of the topic on the wiki talk page have explained the meaning of the term in British English.
在 2019年12月20日週五 06:19，Francesco Ansanelli <[email protected]> 寫道： > > > Il gio 19 dic 2019, 23:00 Warin <[email protected]> ha scritto: > >> On 20/12/19 01:16, Francesco Ansanelli wrote: >> > Dear List, >> > >> > I have updated the roundtrip page and created the closed loop proposal >> > in order to address the misuse of the first tag: >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:roundtrip >> > >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:closed_loop=yes >> > >> > Please let me know what you think >> > >> >> The word 'round' implies circular. So a 'roundtrip' could be a circular >> > > I'm not a mother tongue but: > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip > Definition of *round trip* > > : a trip to a place and back usually over the same route > https://www.thefreedictionary.com/roundtrip > > > A trip from one place to another and back, usually over the same route. > https://www.yourdictionary.com/round-trip > > round trip > > noun > A trip from one place to another and back, usually over the same route. > Idk if it's clearer why I tried to match the definition. > > route that does not go from A to B and back along the same route, it >> could go A to B to C and then back to A via D. As such your rewording is >> wrong and does not match present use. >> >> Revert your change. >> > > How about a voting? > > >> If you want to signify a route that goes from A to B and back along the >> same route invent another tag, roundtrip is not it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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