[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Richard Mann]

The proper thing would be to render an egg for american_football, and
nothing for sport=football.

If you render for yourself, set sport=football to whatever you like.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 June 2010 15:24, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And then add a page for sport=football and just football pointing to
>> all the different sports named football by various people in the
>> world.
>
> Yes .
> So the wiki page suggests these tags .
> sport=soccer (see on wikipedia, aka Association Football)
> sport=rugby_league
> sport=rugby_union
> sport=australian_football
> sport=american_football
> sport=gaelic_football
>
> Still there is a problem in many non native english countries
> understanding the term soccer where mostly the temptation would be to
> tag it with something simply and widely understood as 'football' . So
> no other choice but to use the term 'soccer' .
>
> Anyways on the rendering side. Mapnik doesn't even render football
> (maybe because it wants the map to be neat)
> Osmarender still renders sport=football with that egg shaped icon .
> This is due to
>
>                <rule e="node" k="sport" v="football">
>                        <symbol ref="football" position="center"/>
> </rule>
>
> The above code is located at
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/osmarender/stylesheets/osm-map-features-z17.xml
>  line: 3494
>
> Where the symbol football is
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/osmarender/stylesheets/symbols/football.svg
>
> I am not sure if people would like rendering sport=football as egg
> shaped ball or round football or none hence didnt dare propose a
> patch(remove 3 lines) :D
>
> Regards,
> Pavithran
>
> --
> pavithran sakamuri
> http://look-pavi.blogspot.com
>
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