Timeline for Applying geographic tags to questions?
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| Mar 24, 2017 at 4:08 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | York is a city, Yorkshire is an historic county (abbreviated as Yorks) - but I get your point. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 7:51 | history | edited | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2012 at 0:30 | comment | added | Rob Hoare | And abbreviations are a whole different problem. When I switch my GPS to an Australian voice (it's clearer) and then drive not far from Seattle, it says "now driving on Western Australia Twenty". The abbreviation WA isn't only in one country (nor is NT). | |
| Oct 13, 2012 at 0:21 | comment | added | Rob Hoare | @canadian-girl-scout: that's why I said "with the aim of being useful, rather than totally accurate". "I think my great-uncle went to America" is going to be common usage, so the America tag could point to the proper USA tag (not the other way round!). "United States" could also point to USA, even though there are other United States (Mexico, historically Brazil etc). The aim of synonyms is to change common, but sometimes wrong, usage into a standard and more correct tag. Getting Americans to understand England is not the same as UK or Great Britain will be a challenge though. | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 5:25 | comment | added | Canadian Girl Scout | Just a note, that many people say 'America' when they mean 1) USA 2) North America 3) North & South America ...As a Canadian, I find this both confusing and annoying - so the USA tag should definitely NOT be 'America'. | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 13:31 | comment | added | Saariko | synonyms - that's where they are for | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 12:57 | history | answered | beachbuddah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |