[Talk-GB] Private tracks through a farmyard

[Tom Hughes]

On 22/04/2022 12:53, Martin Wynne wrote:

> In ordinary UK English, a "highway" means as a communal resource, 
> generally accessible to all. In most dictionaries the first definition 
> of "highway" is "a public road that all may use".

Trying to interpret OSM tags using a dictionary is never going
to work and never can work - they should be treated as opaque
keys having an OSM specific meaning.

Even if we did declare they tags had their english dictionary
meaning that would just make them wrong in other countries.

Yes the OSM names have some loose relationship to the language
used to define them but it's only loose - primarily they act as
an OSM specific ontology that can work globally, with local rules
in each country as to how to map that countries rules to the
shared global ontology.

Tom

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