[OSM-talk] Vegetation page

[Mike Harris]

... Yes, fully agreed ... (and I wasn't being terribly serious as it was
getting near time to go and open a bottle of foreign wine (;>) and watch a
movie).

Although it may sometimes be useful to supplement the internationally
applicable / useful with an indication of regional / national differences
where 'locals' may wish to add data to the database that might be of use for
'local' purposes ... Or where the use of the same word in one language (e.g.
in British English) may have different meanings in different locations in
order to assist with disambiguation.

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Körner [mailto:osm-lists at mazdermind.de] 
> Sent: 02 December 2009 21:13
> To: 'talk openstreetmap.org'
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Vegetation page
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Harris schrieb:
> > (... Not entirely seriously ...)
> > 
> > If OSM is an international project - and IMHO it most 
> certainly IS and 
> > should be! - then what can you possibly mean by your phrase 
> 'foreign 
> > national'? Or are you extraterrestrial ... In which case 
> 'welcome to 
> > planet earth' - but, as OSM is a community-drive project I 
> am so sorry 
> > but 'we cannot take you to our leader'.
> > 
> > My wife is only foreign when she is in England ... And I am only 
> > foreign when I am not ...
> 
> Okay, okay, you're right.
> 
> But maybe I get a second chance to phrase it like this:
> 
> If this page is meant to give an overview, then, in a 
> international project, it should only contain things that are 
> useful all around the world.
> 
> Peter
> 
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>