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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 13 April 2010 03:54, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It makes perfect sense if you come from a programming point of view.
>

Depends on the language.  If you have a COBOL background you might just be
tempted to convert underscores to hyphens :).


> Using your logic we should start using German as the main language for
> keywords, since 40% of edits are made by Germans.
>

No.  There are probably more OSMers that know basic English than OSMers that
know basic German.  And we all know where the hyphen key is.

Anyway, whatever, if you want to make it drive_through, go ahead.
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