[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[John F. Eldredge]

"North American continent" includes Canada as well as the USA, and, depending upon what definition you use, as far south as the Panama Canal.  Even in the USA, some fields tagged as "football" are likely to be for sports other than "American football", given our cultural diversity.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

-----Original Message-----
From: pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com>
Sender: tagging-bounces at openstreetmap.org
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:37:58 
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Reply-To: "Tag discussion,
	strategy and related tools" <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?

On 30 June 2010 02:41, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 June 2010 07:04, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>> And what do you think of Paivthran's ongoing concern with the rendering of the
>> wrong ball in osmarender?
>
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3095


Well that hopefully would solve the rendering issue . But your previous stats
>world wide stats... (from XAPI)

>soccer=39,661 (40M of data)
>football=3,848 (5M of data)
>association_football=3

lot of people have already tagged 'football' . "Some ball" will simply vanish .

Is there a bot which cleverly goes around and check the 'football' tag
in north american continent and replace with 'american_football'.

The most carefully to be dealt football tag would be places outside
north america who might have their own cultural representations where
"football" might/might not have meant football(en_GB)

Regards,
Pavithran

--
pavithran sakamuri
http://look-pavi.blogspot.com

_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
Tagging at openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging