On 24/01/13 14:02, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:40:05 François Lacombe wrote:
Ok, I agree with you about substation vs sub_station.
Consensus seems to emerge from this discussion, I would edit the wiki like
polderrunner explained.
* Deprecation (not removal) of power=station, power=substation (and all
other values), message adding at the top of keys' pages. power=sub_station
will be the only valid value. It will encourage mappers to migrate existant
power=station to power=sub_station.
As a native English speaker, I have to tell you that 'substation' is the
correct word. Please do not use 'sub_station'.
I agree the word is substation, but sadly there are 75,700+ entries for
sub_station and only 18 entries for substation. I think the biggest
confusion has been that a substation (sub_station) has something to do
with power generation which it doesn't, only the conversion of voltages,
connections between lines etc.
The good method for migrating is the one used to change highway=gate
into barrier=gate by adding the new tag and leaving the old for a long
changeover time, thus not breaking any data consumers uses. I don't
think that would work well for this subtle change as many would not know
which tag was right. A mass edit changeover to substation would break a
lot of renders etc, so I suspect we are stuck with sub_station for now.
--
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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