[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Peteris Krisjanis]

2010/6/28 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Martin, I see alias tags as way to phase out old tag and replace it
with new one.

Cheers,
Peter.