[OSM-talk] Case sensitivity of osmarender, tagging places, and which tags to use

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Sun Oct 22 15:04:23 BST 2006


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and which tags to use

Hi,

>I've been creating a fair amount of new ways and places, and naming
>them where possible. Yay.

1)
>However, when I tag them, I tend to go with JOSM's default names for
>the tags, which leaves me with something like "Name=Midhurst,
>Place=town".... which is fine until I come to render the map with
>osmarender via xmlstar -- the names aren't rendered because the tags'
>keys are uppercase. If I change it to "name=Midhurst, place=town" it
>gets drawn correctly.
>Of course, I've only just realised this, so there'll be some
>ways/nodes that I've created (and I've now got no idea which ones they
>are) with the uppercase keys.

>Does (should) case matter? Which case should they be in?

Lower case. They should match the specification in Map Features at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features



3)
>Is there a recognised tag for a campsite? (Telephone number would be
>handy here too).

tourism=camp_site.

Nick







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