On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/7/4 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>: > Seriously, you seem to have picked on this particular issue and are > now advocating wrong spelling pretending this would make mapping > easier. IMHO correct spelling (inherent logics) is always easier then > "rules" how to do it wrong in order to do it right. I know and can see > from the lists that there are apparently some people in the project > with problems in orthography (and I include myself for the lists in > English language), but making arbitrary rules will not improve the > situation. > > I also agree that tags are not written in a #@^′\programming_-_language_^*
I'm not advocating for wrong spelling, but I don't think hyphenation is part of spelling, but of grammar/syntax. Wikipedia says that "spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics" and hyphens are neither letters nor diacritics but is a punctuation mark. The use of correct punctuation is part of grammar and not of spelling. Yes, OSM tags are not part of any programming language, but I don't consider drive_through as an instance of incorrect spelling. Yes, it's not correct English grammar, but OSM tags don't use English grammar anyway. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
