<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-18 1:32 GMT+01:00 Mike Dupont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@charles.derkarl.org" target="_blank">osm@charles.derkarl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The tagging of things bears little resemblance to things in the real world:</blockquote></div></div>
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I agree, first of all, i tried to explain to someone how to tag a cafe/bar and he was confused and so was I.<br></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>amenity=cafe, is this really so difficult?<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">why would americans want to learn british names for things?<br></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>actually they should learn "tags" (or use some abstraction layer like presets) not "British names". If we all used tags in our native languages it would maybe complicate stuff? Would be interesting to see what you wrote if americans had to deal with German or Russian tags ;-)<br>
</div><div>You can translate this to a certain point, but you'll get more blur about the meaning of a tag I guess, maybe up to the point where it gets useless, but at least you'll loose the details. Ever read an automatically translated appliance manual?<br>
<br></div><div>cheers,<br>Martin<br></div></div></div></div>