On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:48 PM john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tagging is not always easy, highways in Africa are an example. See a dirt > track in Europe and its probably a highway=track. In Africa it probably > isn't. > A "road is a highway" is confusing because the word "highway" has a different meaning depending on the region. Yet, tagging should not be ambiguous -- the whole idea about tagging is so that I (the consumer) can understand what you (the mapper) meant in the most precise way. A good example is "denomination=evangelical" -- German speakers should not use it for "evangelisch" which stands for denomination=protestant. The word may be the same, but we treat "evangelical" as an ID for a specific meaning, rather than reflect local language customs.
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