On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/6/30 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>: >> 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 > > well, the correct spelling is "substation" ;-)
Besides, the fact that someone made a mistake back in 2007 is not a good reason to make a similar mistake today. There's no good reason to replace hyphens with underscores. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging