* Eugene Podshivalov <yauge...@gmail.com> [181209 12:34]: > вс, 9 дек. 2018 г. в 14:10, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com>:
>> We have tags for that (waterway=stream, ditch, ... / amenity=school, >> college, university, kindergarten), I don't understand why we should >> change the usage of name for that. > How would you map American "streamlet", "brook", "creek" and "river" to the > two generic "stream" and "river" in OSM? > Currently they are just putting in the name field, so the only ways to fide > all "brooks" is by searching the name fields which is not a proper database > approach. Most probably you would not want to look for all "brooks", because "brook" is just one of multiple words that mean the same thing. There is no semantic difference between a "brook" and a "stream" in general nowadays. Its just that in different regions of the english speaking world different words were commonly used, and people in America used whatever word they were familiar with. Wolfgang ( lyx @ osm ) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging