Paul Allen: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 13:17, Christoph Hormann <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I think this is a good idea. Both in the sense of establishing a distinct > tagging for it that does not engross qanats with other types of > underground > waterways and in the sense of using a non-English and non-European term > where the > most descriptive and clear term comes from a non-European language. > > > I agree with you there. Sort of. English has no equivalent term because > the UK has no equivalent structure. But English has done what it always > does with such things when it needs to refer to such things - it made them > loan words.
And we already have plenty of those: Piste Gabion Kindergarten chicane kneipp_water_cure bureau_de_change aikido krachtbal boules futsal adit gasometer > Qanat IS a word that appears in English dictionaries and it IS > the British English name for such structures. Some languages prefer > to come up with new words of their own rather than borrow words from > another language; English, being a mongrel tongue, has no such qualms. > > > We have other cases of such tags in OSM but still in a proposal process > which > is dominantly discussed in English this is rare and kind of a litmus test > for how > culturally diverse tagging in OSM can be and if the cultural geography of > non-European regions can be mapped in the classifications used locally > just as we > are used to doing it in Europe and North America. > > > We should definitely map things that do not physically occur in > English-speaking parts of the world. But we should use the British English > name (which may or may not have been derived from the local name) to tag > them. > > -- > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Niels Elgaard Larsen _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
