[Tagging] How to tag a "overhead electronic display" ?

[John Eldredge]

That sounds reasonable.

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On October 29, 2015 4:03:49 AM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-10-29 9:33 GMT+01:00 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:
>>
>>> I think we'd have to invent a tag.  I only know them to be called a
>>> "programmable changeable message sign", so I'd probably tag it
>>> traffic_sign=pcms
>>>
>>
>>
>> please, let's continue to avoid abbreviations. "pcms" is cryptic to me and
>> likely to many others too.
>> Wikipedia has an article about them called "variable-message sign" (IMHO
>> sounds slightly nicer, leads to a shorter value and includes
>> "non-programmable" signs: traffic_sign=variable-message_sign, even if the
>> hyphen-underscore mix might lead to minor tagging inconsistencies).
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-message_sign
>> The article also states that a common name in the UK is "matrix_sign" (is
>> ok as well, focusing more on the physical aspect than on the function).
>>
>
>  How about traffic_sign=variable?
>
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