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

[Daryl Lloyd]

On Mon, January 29, 2007 16:08, Ben Ward said:
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>
> So basically it's the user's fault that he isn't aware at x time that he
> should be using lowercase?  I appreciate not changing the backend for the
> various reasons listed above (the foreign languages one was quite
> compelling) but blaming the user for not having read the entire spec (or
> wiki) is a bit unfriendly.
>
...snip...
> This bit confused me. I thought that's what was happening already.
>
> Yes, editing tools are probably the place to do this. Having used JOSM and
> the applet, though, I've always felt like I'm on my own for tagging and
> must
> always have map features wiki page open, just to make sure I'm not
> 'polluting the data'.  It's clear from the number of repeat questions on
> this list that there are editing conventions that need to be enforced, or
> simply encouraged by the editor itself. [*]  If you consider these errors
> then it seems a bit mad for us to accept them into the data.
>
> Ben
>
> [*] To be honest every update of JOSM I've tried has a different
> permutation
> of tagging aids.  Right now I don't have the highway types dropdown any
> more, but I'm buggered if I can work out how I got it in the first place.
> Consider this a plea for help :-)

And it really does not help that (I think I'm correct in saying, but happy
to be told to shut up if wrong!) that JOSM defaults to the key "Name" when
you try to add a new key/value pair. If it should be "name" instead this
would be a more useful thing to default to. I have to admit that I have
spent the whole weekend putting in "Name" because of this without even
being aware that it was wrong!

Daryl