[Tagging] service=drive-through or drive_through?

[Steve Doerr]

On 04/07/2011 14:59, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2011/7/4 Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com>:


> 609 instances of shop=second_hand
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/shop=second_hand
>
> my dictionary tells me that the correct writing is "second hand" so
> second_hand seems correct.

The adjective 'second-hand' is derived from the phrase 'at second hand'. 
When a phrase consisting of two separate words is used adjectivally it 
is usual in English to join the words with a hyphen: 'second-hand goods' 
= 'goods obtained at second hand'. The OED explicitly recommends the 
hyphened version for adjectival uses, although not all its illustrative 
quotations conform.

-- 
Steve