[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/6/28 pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com>:
> On 27 June 2010 17:55, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> -1, AFAIK we use soccer in Germany, Italy and probably elsewhere,
>> while football refers to american football (looking at the icons,
>> preset icons, etc.).
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer redirected to
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fußball
> where I could guess that the article is mostly about football via the
> pictures .
>
> Italian term is definitely ambigous
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football says something that its an
> 'english term'


I didn't say we use "soccer" in our local language (this would be
"Fußball" or "calcio"), but we use "sport=soccer" in OSM.

cheers,
Martin