[OSM-talk] Name vs name tag (case sensitivity)

[Ben Ward]

On 29/01/07, Simon Hewison <simon at zymurgy.org> wrote:
>
> I've been doing some looking over the completeness of Central London (very
> impressive), and found lots of instances of "Name" keys (rather than
> "name"). So far as I am aware, the key names are case-sensitive in most
> renderers and applications, and they expect it to be lower-case.
>
> I've been manually correcting them, but it's probably worth checking the
> config of people's favoured editing applications to make sure that we're
> consistently using "name" in lower case.
>

Just a thought, but is there a great deal of point in having case-sensitive
keys?  Can anyone think of a situation where it's more useful than it is
confusing to have two keys with the same name, but differing case?

Ben

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