[OSM-talk] Disappearing footpaths

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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SteveC wrote:
> David Earl wrote:
>>> * to be consistant, shouldn't bridleway be replaced with horseway?
>>> highway=bridleway tags to horseway :-)
>>>
>>> If only we had some way of getting a machine to do this tedious,
>>>> repetitive work ...
>>
>> This whole thread has to be an April Fool's joke surely.
>>
>> WHY? Why make unnecessary work changing bridleway to horseway?!
>>
>> Why on earth bother changing the common term for something to something
>> nonsensical. And it's just a tag value. It could be wibblewobble as long as

Absolutely.

> Not taking sides - but there is one reason, is bridleway the normal term 
> in Iraq or Germany?

Tags names and preset values are in British English. We would be crazy
to try to change that, no matter how bad it is from a politically
correct point of view, at least not until we can support multiple
languages simultaneously. The only exception is if there are items that
only exist in other languages, in which case using the local language is
fine.

The only way I can see to do that is to have a layer of abstraction
between the data users see and what the database calls the tags
internally. Once we have done that, the internal name may as well stay
with the English name. Anything else would be lots of work for no gain
whatsoever.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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