[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/6/28 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> On 28 June 2010 20:20, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> or maybe all three versions and some other versions as well that
>> weren't thought of right now. Why should using our data be easy?
>
> highway=path already gave alias tagging a precedent, so there is no
> reason you can't have 2 tags that mean the same thing...


I know, but the more aliases we are introducing, the more our data
gets inconsistent / complex to analyse. Should we encourage aliases
for every tag we are using? IMHO no.

cheers,
Martin