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

[Barnett, Phillip]

Preset.xml is what you need I believe.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Meetings/20060822/Log


 
 



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From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ben Ward
Sent: 29 January 2007 16:09
To: OSM Talk
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Name vs name tag (case sensitivity)




On 29/01/07, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote: 

	Ben Ward wrote:
	>
	> Just a thought, but is there a great deal of point in having
	> case-sensitive keys?
	
	


 


	We can write things into the and/or editors or the backend to
enforce
	

	this, or we can just ignore it and tell users to remember, and
	everything will work.


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. 
 


	> 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?
	
	No. That's why you mustn't allow them.  As it is now, a key name
in a
	different case /is/ a completely different name, therefore there
is no 
	room for that confusion. "Name" is not the name of an object,
it's an
	error. Only "name" is the name of an object.
	
	If things were programmed to be case insensitive, then we could
get
	different case names for the same key (on different objects),
and
	renderers could get confused.


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 :-)
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