2010/8/26 Pieren <[email protected]>: > 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 ?
There is a good reason that specialists use specialist language: it is precise. If you could express the same diversity with common language terms there would be no need for special terms. Therefore I welcome the use of precise terms. You will generally have to look things up somewhere (given that this is not done by your editor, in which case it doesn't matter what the tag is), so imho there is no difference. For the specific case of the culvert it might still be imprecise ;-), as it doesn't differentiate between an "inverted siphon" [1] and a "sewer pipe" [2]. I'm not sure if I used the exact English terms, to understand the difference please look at the first images here: [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCker [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durchlass Of course this can also be an advantage and be solved by subtagging. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
