[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Richard Mann]

If you say "football" in en-GB then you mean the game run by the
Football Association in England, and by FIFA internationally. If you
say "Rugby", you mean whichever of the two codes is dominant in your
part of the country / social circle (and probably Rugby Union by
default). At least the ball's the same shape for Rugby Union and Rugby
League.

Of course you can tag what you like and if you want to tag
sport=soccer and if enough people use that then people will figure out
what you mean. But it'll be 95% guesswork if you tag sport=football
for anything other than "Association Football".

Richard

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>>
>> OSM is mostly en_GB,
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> +1
>
>>
>> so it seems obvious that football should mean soccer.
>>
>
> !! really ?!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Etymology
>
> Pieren
>
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