[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Liz]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Jason Cunningham wrote:
> And I'm about to edit it back to sport=association_football.....
> 
> The use of soccer should never have crept in to OSM.
There are no rules on what creeps into OSM

> I've made it clear
> that I think the use of soccer will be very controversial in the UK.
I was born in working class England, and never heard it "association 
football". I knew football, and I did know that it really was called soccer. I 
didn't actually meet rugby as a sport until coming to Australia.

> I
> could never participate in a project that labelled my teams football
> ground as sport=soccer.
You are free.

> 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.
And what do you think of Paivthran's ongoing concern with the rendering of the 
wrong ball in osmarender?