[Talk-ca] Someone adding LKW to truck lanes and parking at border crossings

[Michael Stark]

Further reply on the changesets comments:

"OSM is a globally accessible project. So even for non-US citizens !!! They
must also be able to read the map !!! HGV and LKW are equivalent
abbreviations. Only the insulted arrogant one returns correctly made
repairs. Only a fool prefers a poorly drawn map with a theoretically good
description."

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/134216339

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 2:43 AM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Well even if the term "lkw" were ubiquitous it would still not be a
> suitable value for the "name" tag of a truck lane...
>
> On 7/4/23 06:44, Jherome Miguel wrote:
> > They just replied. Quoting.
> >
> > "In Europe, even outside Germany, the abbreviation LKW (freight) or PKW
> > (passenger) is used. These, on the other hand, do not use the
> > abbreviation HVG [sic]. I think the combination LKW / TRUCK is used to
> > describe it, which is understandable to both English and Germans. Some
> > Americans and Canadians don't know the abbreviation HGV either. Stop
> > removing the LKW/TRUCK description. Thank you."
> >
> > Obviously false. Yes, we don't use HGV, but truck, but the problem is
> > they also slap LKW under a false assumption. Gahhhhhhhh! They might not
> > have ever stepped in either Canada or America.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 10:53 PM Paul Norman <osm at paulnorman.ca
> > <mailto:osm at paulnorman.ca>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2023-06-23 3:17 p.m., Jherome Miguel wrote:
> >      > Some user from Czech Republic has been adding this label
> "TRUCK/LKW"
> >      > to truck lanes and parking at border crossings with the US, and
> this
> >      > has been annoying me. Unless you speak German, you have no idea
> >     what a
> >      > LKW is. Just asked them to stop these. Have anyone did away with
> >      > these? Already did these with Emerson/Pembina and Stanstead/Derby
> >     Line.
> >
> >
> >     That name is generally going to be wrong, aside from the LKW part.
> >     These
> >     are not streets with a name of TRUCK, and they generally have the
> same
> >     name as a larger road, or no name at all.
> >
> >
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