[Tagging] service=drive-through or drive_through?

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Wed Jun 29 02:51:32 BST 2011



SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> On 29/06/2011 02:24, Josh Doe wrote:
> > I noticed user seav changed all tags to drive_through, at least in
> my 
> > area, apparently based on wiki discussions:
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/seav/edits
> >
> > Taginfo shows 1553 uses of drive_through, and 275 of drive-through.
> It 
> > sounds fine to me, so we should probably change Potlatch2, unless 
> > there's significant opposition.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> 
> The stats are crocked due to seav (who appears to be running a bot 
> without checking with local mappers first) changing them.  The last
> wiki 
> edits were by seav editing the page to match the version that they 
> favoured.  The "tagging@" discussion that they refer to in those wiki 
> edits tended to favour "_" but as ever wasn't particularly conclusive.
> 
> Perhaps seav's time would be better spent submitting a patch to 
> Potlatch2 or, dare I suggest it, actually doing some mapping?  If 
> they've mapped everything locally than perhaps in the light of recent 
> events the Kenya/Somalia border would be a good place to start?

I would not be surprised if there are also some occurrences of "drive-thru" or "drive_thru".  American business people seem to prefer to write "thru" rather than "through", so much so that some members of the public probably aren't aware of the proper spelling. 
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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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