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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/02/2019 14:11, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div>My guess is because OSM was started by somebody in the
UK; OSM is (supposedly) based upon</div>
<div>British English usage; the UK has scouts but not Chiro or
KSA. OSM has scouts because back</div>
<div>in the early days we wanted to map scouts but had no need
to map Chiro.</div>
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<p>Even in the UK there are scouts and there are scouts - the
nearest scout building to me used to be associated with
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts'_Association">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts'_Association</a>
rather than <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association</a> .
There are lots of other "scout-like organisations" such as
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcraft_Folk">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcraft_Folk</a> .<br>
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<p>There are no hard and fast values in OSM; just pick something
appropriate to best fit in with existing OSM tags where possible
and other local mappers. It's possible to go back and change
these if it appears that most people map them as something else (I
can think of a few examples where I was mapping things as X but
for whatever reason Y became more popular; it's easy to switch to
Y).</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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