On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:41 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> and also that there's >> a strong preference for underscores (In fact, there is no hyphenated >> key or value in the Map Features page). > > I think that this is a misconception. Usually we use the underscore in > keys and formal values where these are several words (in normal > language separated by a space). Please also note that there is indeed > some keys which do use hyphens (OK, most of them seem to derive from > imports): > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=-#keys
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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging