description - is used for other purposes already - it lets you describe an object in free manner which can be several sentances long.
чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 12:50, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > On 06/12/18 20:25, Eugene Podshivalov wrote: > > Let me clarify the meaning of those Russian words > "пруд" - is usually a natural but modified by a man body of water which is > smaller than lake. this is usually translated as "pond" > "копанка" - is a very small body of water, escavated by an individual > family for private fishing, usually of a square shape about 10x20 meters in > size. > > Making additional subcategories makes sense only when they are commonly > recognized. > Adding language sepecific tag would work better here in my mind: > water=pond + water:ru=копанка > this way we preserve the generic categorization and let it be expanded for > local purpose. > > With regards to "озеро" (lake) it is even more complecated. In Russian we > may call "озеро" both natural and man-modified bodies of water. > So both water=lake and water=pond can be called "озеро". > The afore-mentioned solution could solve it: > water=lake + water:ru=озеро > water=pond + water:ru=озеро > > Another solution as suggested in the original post is to introduce some > generic (category independent) tag like "name:prefix/postfix" or > "type:<lang>" etc. for such things. > > > Please.. not 'type'. > > How about using 'description' ... > description:ru=копанка > description:ru=пруд > description:ru=озеро > > ??? > > > чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 04:17, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com >> >: >> For example, in America we can call a waterway=stream a “brook”, “creek”, >> “run” and several other things. These waterways will be tagged >> waterway=stream or =river (depending on size) with name=“Bull Run”, >> =“Walker Creek”, =“Johnson’s Brook”, etc. >> We don’t use waterway=creek or waterway=run because there is no >> consistent difference between these. In fact in Standard British English a >> Creek is often a tidal channel in a salt marsh or mangroves. > > If you put “brook”, “creek”, “run” etc. in the name field you will > get tautology in search results like: "stream Blue creek". So either all > objects should have their category in the name field and the search engine > will not add anything or no objects should have category in the name fields > and the search engine will take the category from some other field and > append it to name. > E.g. assume you have name=Blue + waterway=stream + waterway:en=creek, you > search for "Blue" and get "Blue creek". > > чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 10:26, Johnparis <ok...@johnfreed.com>: > >> Thanks, Michal. Following that link led me to: >> >> shop=butcher + butcher=pork >> >> which specifically mentions charcuterie. Presumably covers this too. >> >> Best, >> >> John >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:18 AM Michal Fabík <michal.fa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:03 PM Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it> wrote: >>> > I have the same problem for some shop categories which are not part of >>> the US/UK tradition: an Italian "salumeria" [1] is in no way similar to a >>> US "deli" shop... >>> >>> Hi, the wiki specifically mentions this and suggests a different way >>> of tagging American delis: >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Ddeli >>> >>> -- >>> Michal Fabík >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > listTagging@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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