[OSM-newbies] lock_name or lock:name

[Claudius]

Am 17.09.2009 09:50, Mike Harris:
> I tend to use the understroke rather than the colon - i.e. lock_name,
> bridge_name etc. but have no idea what is best practice - so I second the
> question and would like to see answers ...
>
> Mike Harris

 From my understanding the underscore "_" should serve as a replacement 
for a space character which would be invalid in this context. So the 
underscore is not used as a connection between two different terms but 
simply as a space's replacement.

Opposed to that the colon ":" opens a new namespace [1], I wouldn't talk 
about objects and it's properties here.
So the lock-namespace would contain ref and number.

Regarding the original question about tagging a lock's name: Why don't 
you simply use the name-tag?

Claudius


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace_(computer_science)