+1 On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Question 1 : is "culvert" commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that > a term mainly used by civil engineers ? > > I understand it to be a passage under a road that isn't big enough for a > vehicle - maybe a 0.5m pipe for water, or maybe just big enough for some > animals, but a human going through a culvert would be abnormal. > > Question 2 : if not, is it normal that OSM average contributor has to use > these technical words just to make the civil engineers happy ? Don't we take > the risk to exclude more and more average contributors by adopting such > technical vocabular ? > > In my opinion, one of the broken things about OSM is the insistence on > making up names and not adopting existing professional terminology. > Coming up with names is often about a taxonomy and that requires a fair > bit of thought. When a relevant professional community has done this, > we should just use their definitions. That doesn't mean we can't give > readable explanations. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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