Question 1 : is "culvert" commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that a term mainly used by civil engineers ?
I understand it to be a passage under a road that isn't big enough for a vehicle - maybe a 0.5m pipe for water, or maybe just big enough for some animals, but a human going through a culvert would be abnormal. Question 2 : if not, is it normal that OSM average contributor has to use these technical words just to make the civil engineers happy ? Don't we take the risk to exclude more and more average contributors by adopting such technical vocabular ? In my opinion, one of the broken things about OSM is the insistence on making up names and not adopting existing professional terminology. Coming up with names is often about a taxonomy and that requires a fair bit of thought. When a relevant professional community has done this, we should just use their definitions. That doesn't mean we can't give readable explanations.
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