[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Jason Cunningham]

And I'm about to edit it back to sport=association_football.....

The use of soccer should never have crept in to OSM. I've made it clear that
I think the use of soccer will be very controversial in the UK. I could
never participate in a project that labelled my teams football ground as
sport=soccer. A vast number of British 'football' supporters will feel far
stronger about this than me, and I believe it would lead to a serious and
continuous vandalism of OSM.

The solution is not even controversial. Just call the sport by its proper
full name "association football". It's easy to change the wiki and JOSM, and
there a people running bots that are designed to change tags like this.
Where's the profit in starting a 'war' with several thousand British
'football supporters' when all that is needed is to tag the sport with it's
official name?

This had given me a small weekend project, I'm off to find the UK
'association football' grounds and add sport=assocation_football, the name
of the ground, and team

Jason

On 29 June 2010 14:58, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can people please stop changing sport=soccer to
> sport=association_football on the
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Football page, I'm just going to
> keep reverting the changes because as it now stands sport=soccer is
> the most used and most accepted tagging for this sport.
>
> It's not acceptable to change things through the back door just
> because you aren't accustomed to this and most people participating in
> this thread were not supportive of this change.
>
> If you think people may not understand that
> soccer=association_football then write a tagging guideline page,
> people already do this for other tags that may be unintuitive due to
> regional and cultural backgrounds.
>
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