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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Mon Oct 18 22:18:37 BST 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/17 Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>:
>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
>> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/10/17 Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:
>
>> This
>>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22drive+through%22%2C+%22drive-through%22
>>
>> suggests the popular form is not hyphenated, but two words.
>
>
> OK, interesting, even "drive thru" wins agains "drive-thru":
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22drive+thru%22%2C+%22drive-thru%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

On the other hand, Google trends is completely useless for the purpose
of measuring which form is more popular.



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