[Tagging] football or soccer ?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 16:49:12 BST 2010


On 30 June 2010 01:40, Jason Cunningham <jamicuosm at googlemail.com> wrote:
> And I'm about to edit it back to sport=association_football.....

And reverted again... sport=soccer is the most used/most common use,
you are trying to start a war with everyone already tagging this
way...

> 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.

So far only 2 people have said there is a problem, out of how many
hundreds of thousands of mappers?




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