2009/10/3 Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]>: > I'm not in favour of a fork - I'm in favour of a consistent schema. > There are significant regional differences and no means yet to deal with those > within the multiple flavours of English spoken throughout the world. Spanish > speakers will have similar troubles adapting translations of different things. > Motel is an example of a word in use in different places with quite distinct > meanings.
The bigger issue here is, without consistent tagging people will eventually end up writing bots to fix something in their country and destroy the value of data in another country by accident. This has already happened with ABS data in Australia, someone thought they were doing the right thing by splitting long ways and moving tags to a relation, instead this ended up causing other people more work to revert the changes they've made. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
