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<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">Brilliant!<br><br>>
http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/handegg.jpg<br><br>May
I use it?<br><br>Anyway, going seriously</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">I think Martin has been
misunderstood.<br><br>In Italy we currently use "calcio"<br>our
federation is F.I.G.C.<br>That means literaly<br>Federation. Italian.
Game. Calcio<br><br>my home town team is "Calcio Catania"
whose official website is http://www.calciocatania.it/<br><br>I think
Martin has been misunderstood, some of them use soccer on tagging in
OSM and to avoid misunderstandings when speaking with people not able
to distinguish a ball from an egg and a hand from a foot.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">Just kidding.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><br>The first time I have known the
term soccer was buying an American game on "calcio".<br><br>The
question is <u><b>which language we have to use for taggi</b></u><u><b>ng?</b></u><br>If
we want to endorse British English as our <i>standard</i> we have to
use it not only for soccer/football disambiguation but also for
footway/sidewalk since footway as in the oxford dictionary is mainly
a British term infact it is not in the WordNet linguistic resource
<a href="http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn">http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn</a>
developed in Princeton.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">Or we have to define an OSM lingo?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">The probem basically stands in the
ambiguity of the project.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">We have three conflicting issues in the
project.</p>
<ol><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;">The project is OpenStreet<b>MAP</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and some users, like me, are proud of their job if they see a nice
map coming from their edits. Therefore rendering for someone is a
priority.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
project define itself like the wikipedia for maps, but in wikipedia
you can edit in your own language as in all web application where
you tag something. Moreover in the wiki there is, </span><u><b>you
can use any tag you like</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I would like to tag in Italian then and this statement allow me to
do it but it is conflicting with point 1.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
another motto is </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>tag
for the database don't tag for the render</b></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
that is also conflicting with point 2.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
only way to overcome such inconsistencies </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>as
OSM is now is</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">abandon
point 2 and decide a standard either british or american english or a
OSM lingo, but I do not like this.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
prefer a smart development of the project to resemble more like
wikipedia.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cheers</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0mm;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gianfranco</span></span></span></p>
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