[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Hiking_checkpoint

[Zsolt Bertalan]

I see. Is hiking campaign better?

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>wrote:

> Zsolt Bertalan <herrbert74 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Because there is no difference. What is the difference between a rugby
> > match
> > and a rugby union match? Nothing. Both of them are a rugby match. But
> > rugby
> > union match is more specific.
> > In this case we need the general term.
> > There are TMs that are not routes. They consist of checkpoints that
> > you can
> > visit anytime, in any order from any dircetion. And there are TMs like
> > El
> > Camino that consist of several routes.
> > I think there are much more confusing terms in English than such a
> > loan
> > translation.
> >
> > And what about 'organised hiking tour'? That covers routes, walks,
> > such
> > movements with only checkpoints, etc., but doesn't sound good to me as
> > a
> > tagging key. It is confusing in an other way, because it covers more
> > than I
> > need (hiking tours without checkpoints). Argh.
>
> The problem is that, while English sometimes uses movement to mean "a group
> of people with a common goal", it does not, at present, use movement to mean
> "a series of actions to be taken to achieve that goal".  So, an organization
> of hikers might be termed a movement, but the routes along which they are
> encouraged to hike would not be termed a movement.  After all, the hikers
> (and the people organizing the hikers) are the ones moving in both the
> physical and metaphorical senses.  The routes themselves take no action.
>
> This tag is more likely to be understood by English-speakers if you use a
> less literal translation.
> --
> John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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