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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/12/19 17:18, Francesco Ansanelli
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il ven 20 dic 2019, 01:16
              Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> ha
              scritto:<br>
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                <div>On 20/12/19 10:15, Chris Hill wrote:<br>
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                  <p>I have been a native British English speaker for
                    about sixty years. A trip from A to B and then back
                    to A, either on a fully reversed route or an
                    alternative route, would could be described as a
                    round trip. There is certainly no element of a
                    curved or looping route required to make it a round
                    trip.</p>
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                Nor is there anything in 'round trip' to exclude a
                curved circular route. Would be interesting to find the
                origin of 'round trip'. <br>
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                  <p>HTH</p>
                  <p>Chris</p>
                  <pre cols="72">-- 
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)</pre>
                  <div>On 19/12/2019 22:48, Phake Nick wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">Merriam Webster and some other
                      resources you have quoted are dictionary for
                      American English, not the variant of English used
                      by OSM. Posts by original author of the topic on
                      the wiki talk page have explained the meaning of
                      the term in British English.</div>
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                      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">在 2019年12月20日週五
                        06:19,Francesco Ansanelli <<a
                          href="mailto:francians@gmail.com"
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                          moz-do-not-send="true">francians@gmail.com</a>>
                        寫道:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il gio
                                19 dic 2019, 23:00 Warin <<a
                                  href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com"
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                                ha scritto:<br>
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                                #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 20/12/19
                                01:16, Francesco Ansanelli wrote:<br>
                                > Dear List,<br>
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                                > I have updated the roundtrip page
                                and created the closed loop proposal <br>
                                > in order to address the misuse of
                                the first tag:<br>
                                > <a
                                  href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:roundtrip"
                                  rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer
                                  noreferrer" target="_blank"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:roundtrip</a><br>
                                > <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:closed_loop=yes"
                                  rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer
                                  noreferrer" target="_blank"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:closed_loop=yes</a><br>
                                ><br>
                                > Please let me know what you think<br>
                                ><br>
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                                The word 'round' implies circular. So a
                                'roundtrip' could be a circular <br>
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                          <div dir="auto">I'm not a mother tongue but:</div>
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                          <div dir="auto"><a
                              href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip"
                              rel="noreferrer noreferrer"
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                                <h2>Definition of <em
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline">round
                                    trip</em></h2>
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                                  <div
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:normal;line-height:22px;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:rgb(48,51,54)"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:normal;line-height:22px;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:0.2px"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bolder;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">: </span>a
                                        trip to a place and back usually
                                        over the same route</span></span></div>
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                Oxford Dictionary (usually taken as a good source for UK
                English): <span
                  id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_sngs_2"><span
                    id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_sng_2"><span
                      id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_def_2">a
                      journey to a place and back again<br>
                      <br>
                      Nothing about 'over the same route'. <br>
                    </span></span></span></div>
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        <div dir="auto">But also not the circular word...</div>
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                  id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_sngs_2"><span
                    id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_sng_2"><span
                      id="m_-4561095480595731761roundtrip_def_2">  <br>
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                              href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/roundtrip"
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                            <span
style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A
                              trip from one place to another and back,
                              usually over the same route.</span><br>
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                                face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
                                color="#404040"><span
                                  style="font-size:13px"><a
                                    href="https://www.yourdictionary.com/round-trip"
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                                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.yourdictionary.com/round-trip</a></span></font><br>
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                            <h2>round trip</h2>
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                                <p
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                                  1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.25em">A
                                  trip from one place to another and
                                  back, usually over the same route.</div>
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                          <div dir="auto">Idk if it's clearer why I
                            tried to match the definition.</div>
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                                style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
                                #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> route that
                                does not go from A to B and back along
                                the same route, it <br>
                                could go A to B to C and then back to A
                                via D. As such your rewording is <br>
                                wrong and does not match present use.<br>
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                                Revert your change.<br>
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                          <div dir="auto">How about a voting?</div>
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                You may have done that before your change. <br>
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        <div dir="auto">Sorry for being "rude"... When in Rome...</div>
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                As I understand it you want to distinguish between
                routes that use the same route to return to the same
                place compared to those routes that return to the same
                place by a different route or at least sections are
                different.  <br>
                At present both of those are in OSMs 'roundtrip'. Would
                not this information be obtained by looking at the route
                as mapped in OSM?</div>
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        <div dir="auto">I think a tag may enforce it</div>
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    So all the existing round trips will have to be deleted or re-tagged
    with something else .. as they may not meet this definition. I know
    the route I have tagged round trip doers not, so to avoid incorrect
    data they will all have to be deleted. <br>
    All the past editors who have learnt the old definition will
    probably continue to use it from the old definition - meaning errors
    will be constantly introduced.<br>
    The editors may have top be rejigged too. <br>
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cite="mid:CAF0E3p5dHD---Xp70V1UES9OynYTKWqxncwzC9Ln8_tD=gSDaw@mail.gmail.com">
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              <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Is there a need to
                add this information? <br>
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    By that I mean renders may determine it for themselves using the OSM
    data? If so then this tag is of no real use. <br>
    See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:roundtrip#loop">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:roundtrip#loop</a><br>
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    A bus that goes from A to B and returns 'using the same route' will
    have to turn around .. and that turning will not be using the same
    route .. so it does not meet a strict definition of 'using the same
    route'. <br>
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    There are too many problems introduced by this new definition of
    roundtrip. <br>
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