On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 12 April 2010 22:44, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: >> >> If you want to be consistent, use underscores not hyphens, eg >> >> service=drive_through >> > >> > I still vote for drive-through (or, alternatively, drive-thru). I've >> never >> > seen anyone call one a drive_through. I see no value in consistency if >> it >> > means being consistently wrong. >> >> I'm talking consistency with almost every other OSM tag, OSM tagging >> predominantly converts spaces and hyphens to underscores. >> > > I'm not aware of any hyphens which are converted into underscores, let > alone that this is "predominantly" the case. And even if it is > "predominantly" the case, that's no reason not to do things correctly in the > future. What's the point of converting a hyphen into an underscore? >
Well, I now see that there are a few. I still don't understand why, though, and I don't think we should keep doing something which makes no sense just because we've done it in the past.
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