[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[John F. Eldredge]

Why would the term "soccer" be considered an insult?  According to the Wikipedia article referenced earlier in the thread, the British were the ones who coined the term "soccer", as a contraction of "association football", the original name of the sport.  The name "football" was already in use as a shorthand term for rugby.  Would you prefer the use of "association_football" instead?  Since OpenStreetMap seeks to use the British terminology, I think the best solution would be to use "soccer" or "association_football", "American_football", "rugby", or "Australian_football", and avoid the use of "football", since, in British usage, "football" can mean any of the above four sports.


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Subject :Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?
From  :mailto:jamicuosm at googlemail.com
Date  :Sun Jun 27 19:26:27 America/Chicago 2010


Yes, the wiki needs to be changed to tell people not to use the insulting word 'soccer', especially as we try to use British English to stop tags getting confusing.
Just using sport=football would be confusing, so I prefer sport=association_football
 I would also guess that using the insulting term 'soccer' in the UK will lead to vandalism by British football supporters

Jason


 +1. To all those who expressed there idea that soccer should be tagged
 sport=football in this thread: please don't ignore the wiki,
 applications and render rules. By looking at all of these it should
 become obvious that soccer is the preferred tag (also by numbers where
 soccer is used more than 10 times as often as football).
 
 cheers,
 Martin
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