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

[John McKerrell]

On 29 Jan 2007, at 16:21, Daryl Lloyd wrote:

> <snip>
> 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

I did a very similar thing to you for a day, but it turned out that  
I'd added a single Name tag by accident. JOSM then uses the existing  
keys it has seen to make suggestions for you (or that seems to be  
what I've experienced), the ordering of them it was using places  
capital letters above lowercase so I ended up using Name a number of  
times without realising it because I had entered a single bad one in  
the first place. I think I had to look at my daily dump of data to  
find the errant "Name" tags.

John