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

Craig Wallace craigw84 at fastmail.fm
Sun Oct 17 15:59:30 BST 2010


On 17/10/2010 11:40, Richard Weait wrote:

> And if service=drive_thru is to be revised, perhaps drive_thru=yes/no
> from Map Features should follow the same plan.
>
> Also redirecting drive_thru=yes to drive_in seems very wrong.  A drive
> through and a drive in are very different in my experience.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:drive_thru&redirect=no

Yes, it seems key:drive_thru was recently added to Map Features (and a 
few other pages), without any proposal or discussion. I agree that it 
makes sense for it to be consistent spelling with service=drive-through 
/ service=drive_through.

And it is different thing to key:drive_in, so it should have a separate 
page.

I'm not too fussed whether it has a hyphen or an underscore, so long as 
one is agreed upon. FWIW the Wikipedia article uses a hyphen, as do a 
couple of dictionaries I checked.



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