[Tagging] Is highway=service, service=drive_thru a good idea?

[Anthony]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 12 April 2010 22:44, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> >> If you want to be consistent, use underscores not hyphens, eg
>> >> service=drive_through
>> >
>> > I still vote for drive-through (or, alternatively, drive-thru).  I've
>> never
>> > seen anyone call one a drive_through.  I see no value in consistency if
>> it
>> > means being consistently wrong.
>>
>> I'm talking consistency with almost every other OSM tag, OSM tagging
>> predominantly converts spaces and hyphens to underscores.
>>
>
> I'm not aware of any hyphens which are converted into underscores, let
> alone that this is "predominantly" the case.  And even if it is
> "predominantly" the case, that's no reason not to do things correctly in the
> future.  What's the point of converting a hyphen into an underscore?
>

Well, I now see that there are a few.  I still don't understand why, though,
and I don't think we should keep doing something which makes no sense just
because we've done it in the past.
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