Yeah, technically, tags are case sensitive. You can have multiple tags on an object: foo=bar, Foo=bar, FOO=bar all on one object will be accepted by the API.
But as Ed pointed out, by convention, most things are lower case. Toby On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ed Loach <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say generally, yes. I notice locally a bot following around a mapper > who uses denomination=Anglican converting it to denomination=anglican (and > auto-correct made that difficult to type with a lower case in this email). > > > > See also: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.4.1 > > “All tags are lower-case, except for names.” > > > > (I’d add FIXME=* as an exception to the all tags are lower-case rule; I’m > sure other people might come up with other exceptions; see for example: > > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys sort by Key ascending and go forward a > few pages to get past those beginning with a digit – AND prefixed keys for > example are quite numerous). > > > > Ed > > > > From: Matthew Deabreu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 07 February 2012 20:51 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSM-talk] Are OSM tags case sensitive? > > > > Hello All, > > > > Just a quick question, are OSM tags case sensitive? > > > > I have seen quite a bit of discussion about the topic however I have not > seen a definitive answer. I am wondering because I work at Safe Software > Inc. and the product we are working on currently treats them as case > sensitive. Should we make our product (FME) treat OSM tags as case > insensitive and convert attributes to all lower case? > > > > Thank you for any help! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
