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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/03/2015 5:49 PM, Jochen Topf
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<pre wrap="">On Sa, Mär 14, 2015 at 09:24:20 +1100, Warin wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Are not 'keys' always lower case? Thus any upper case there can be changed
into lower case without loss of data?
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Tags are much more varied than you might think. And then some. See here for
some stats: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/reports/characters_in_keys">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/reports/characters_in_keys</a>
Jochen
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<tt>So some 25% have a capitol letter or a letter from another
language ... </tt><tt><big><br>
<small> From that I would think there is a fair chance that 25%
of the keys on the db may not conform to the 'official' keys.
Changing the upper case to lower case may make some of them
conform .. <br>
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toiletS .. to toilets ... while it may not mean the same thing
to the original mapper .. it may be understood by users and
other mappers .. something is lost but a fair bit is gained?<br>
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If an automated change is made .. there is nothing to stop the
automation adding a note (or appending to an existing note
with the original data? </small></big></tt><br>
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