[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Hiking_checkpoint

[Steve Doerr]

accreditation_scheme?
accreditation_agency?
promoter?

On 17/07/2011 14:48, Zsolt Bertalan wrote:
> I see. Is hiking campaign better?
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com 
> <mailto:john at jfeldredge.com>> wrote:
>
>     Zsolt Bertalan <herrbert74 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
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