[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Richard Mann]

In Great Britain it's soccer 950, football 600, association_football nil

By all means add association_football as an additional option (as a
synonym for soccer for those that prefer it), but there's no need to
try to deprecate soccer.

Richard

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jason Cunningham
<jamicuosm at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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