[Tagging] building=digester

[Dave Swarthout]

Marc,

Sorry, sometimes I forget just how difficult it can be to agree about
tagging terminology when there are underlying language differences like
this that I was not aware of. I have trouble with the UK-English slant of
OSM all the time and English is my mother tongue. Of course, I'm American
so that statement might bring a smile to the face of a native British
person.

Dave

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutendijk at mac.com>
wrote:

>
> > Op 20 mei 2016, om 00:03 heeft Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > I don't know where the notion came from saying a greenhouse is not a
> building. It is not a residence but it is most certainly a building - it
> has doors, walls and a roof, Just because they're made of glass doesn't
> disqualify it from the building category.
> >
>
> Dave,
>
> That was my observation. The major problem in this discussion - as almost
> always is the case when people have different opinions - is a language
> problem. In my country, The Netherlands, we have tens of thousands of
> greenhouses but nobody will call them “building” because that word
> translates as “gebouw” and that doesn’t fit (in Dutch) to what a greenhouse
> is. We have just a different word for a greenhouse: “kas”. (and it might be
> called “bouwwerk” - something that is built; or “constructie” - something
> that is constructed; but never “gebouw” - building. )
>
> How nice would it be if all words in all languages had a one-to-one
> relationship!
> And because the lingua-franca for OSM is UK-English, more and more
> problems will arise in the future as more and more
> "non-uk-english-speakers-mappers” are trying to find out "what the heck is
> a village_green??”
>
> Marc.
>
>


-- 
Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20160520/66b68945/attachment.html>