<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><br><div class="gmail_quote"><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">francians@gmail.com</a>> 寫道：<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il gio 19 dic 2019, 23:00 Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 20/12/19 01:16, Francesco Ansanelli wrote:<br>
> Dear List,<br>
><br>
> 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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not a mother tongue but:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round%20trip</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="margin:18px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:lato,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:360px;min-height:1px;max-width:100%"><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:26px;font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(38,86,103);letter-spacing:0.3px;display:inline">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><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;line-height:26px;font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(38,86,103);letter-spacing:0.3px;display:inline"></p></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:lato,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:15px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;font-family:'open sans','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:0.2px;display:block"><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></span></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/roundtrip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.thefreedictionary.com/roundtrip</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><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></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#404040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.yourdictionary.com/round-trip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.yourdictionary.com/round-trip</a></span></font><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#404040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></span></div><div dir="auto"><h2 style="margin:0.2em 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:bitter,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);max-width:90%;line-height:1.2125em;display:inline-block;background-color:rgb(241,241,241);font-size:1.4em!important">round trip</h2><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"open sans","helvetica neue",helvetica,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)" dir="auto"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.5em"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:inherit;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic">noun</p><div style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.25em">A trip from one place to another and back, usually over the same route.</div></div></div></div><div dir="auto">Idk if it's clearer why I tried to match the definition.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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>
<br>
Revert your change.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How about a voting?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
If you want to signify a route that goes from A to B and back along the <br>
same route invent another tag, roundtrip is not it.<br>
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