I would say generally, yes. I notice locally a bot following around a mapper who uses denomination=Anglican converting it to denomination=anglican (and auto-correct made that difficult to type with a lower case in this email).
See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.4.1 “All tags are lower-case, except for names.” (I’d add FIXME=* as an exception to the all tags are lower-case rule; I’m sure other people might come up with other exceptions; see for example: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys sort by Key ascending and go forward a few pages to get past those beginning with a digit – AND prefixed keys for example are quite numerous). Ed From: Matthew Deabreu [mailto:matthew.deab...@safe.com] Sent: 07 February 2012 20:51 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Are OSM tags case sensitive? Hello All, Just a quick question, are OSM tags case sensitive? I have seen quite a bit of discussion about the topic however I have not seen a definitive answer. I am wondering because I work at Safe Software Inc. and the product we are working on currently treats them as case sensitive. Should we make our product (FME) treat OSM tags as case insensitive and convert attributes to all lower case? Thank you for any help! -- Matthew DeAbreu | Development Intern Safe Software Inc. Suite 2017, 7445 - 132nd Street, Surrey, BC Canada V3W 1J8 T 604.501.9985 x 225 | F 604.501.9965 matthew.deab...@safe.com | www.safe.com FME 2012 World Tour | Spring | 30+ Cities Worldwide & Online Join us at an FME User Meeting near you. See FME 2012 in action, discover new tips and tricks and connect with fellow FME users. Register today at <http://www.safe.com/wt2012> www.safe.com/wt2012
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