<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Do., 22. Juni 2023 um 14:41 Uhr schrieb Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com">gdt@lexort.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Suppose in some other country, bakery is a term that means a shop that<br>
primarly sells sausages. We wouldn't say that this should be<br>
amenity=bakery.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>this is why we have agreed to use English words. A "bakery" in English is a place that primarily sells bread (and other baked stuff, at least generally), so if some other language used the same letters for a word "bakery" which had a different meaning, it could not be the one intended in OSM because we use English.</div><br></div>