just an FYI, one hyphenated tag still on the wiki & in use is
amenity=parking, parking=multi-storey

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2011/6/30 Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]>:
> >> Yes and no. It's true that we use underscores simply because we
> >> substitute spaces with underscores. But there's actually a precedent
> >> for substituting an underscore for a hyphen and this is the tag for
> >> specifying power sub-stations (created back in 2007):
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dsub_station
> >
> > well, the correct spelling is "substation" ;-)
>
> Besides, the fact that someone made a mistake back in 2007 is not a
> good reason to make a similar mistake today.  There's no good reason
> to replace hyphens with underscores.
>
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