Hello, Going back to this old discussion, which is better: service=drive_through or service=drive-through? The hyphenated version is in the Wiki: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:service%3Ddrive-through>, but some people think that we should stick to underscores just like most other OSM tags.
I had already changed my edits from service=drive_thru to service=drive_through in the consensus that the "through" should not be shortened. But it seems that the question about hyphen vs. underscore is not resolved? Eugene (osm:seav) On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:43 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 April 2010 04:32, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: >> Depends on the language. If you have a COBOL background you might just be >> tempted to convert underscores to hyphens :). > > I was just explaining how it made sense, that is it's not written > english, but more akin to a programming language with key words and > limited syntax. > >> No. There are probably more OSMers that know basic English than OSMers that >> know basic German. And we all know where the hyphen key is. > > You are assuming most people don't simply use presets, in which case > the language is unimportant and as time passes there will be > increasing separation between the raw xml and what the user sees and > uses, for numerous reasons, language will be one of them as there will > be translations made for the users but the underlying xml will be > primarily in english-esk, rather than proper english or any other > language for that matter. > >> Anyway, whatever, if you want to make it drive_through, go ahead. > > I was commenting on making things consistent, there is a lot of > existing examples of using underscores. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
