On Monday 04 November 2019, James wrote: > Conspiracy: tagging a grassy knoll "the place JFK was shot from" > > Nitpicking: You rounded off the 16th decimal on a city's name tag, > losing a maximum on 10cm of precision....on...a...city...name....tag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostensive_definition I think Martin was asking for an intensional definition - which is much more suitable in cross cultural communication. In the context of mapping and tagging in OSM we usually focus on and require intensional definitions of tags because anything else tends to cause problems with the use of tags in different parts of the world with very different geography. Similarly relying on terms with purely ostensive definitions in social conventions causes problems with application of these conventions across different cultures and languages. The problem about "conspiracy theories" for example is that the intensional definition would be something like "an idea that is in fundamental conflict with the major consensus narrative of a society". However in a multi-cultural community like OSM the major consensus narrative varies quite strongly between different parts of the community and the claim of something being a "conspiracy theory" will often be subjective and an instrument of cultural imperialism of some dominant culture what they consider to be the acceptable range of views you can have of reality onto the rest of the community. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
