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

Mike Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Tue Jan 30 00:36:54 GMT 2007


At 12:21 AM 30/01/2007, Daryl Lloyd wrote:
>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 think it is actually picking up the first sorted tag name it finds 
in any data you have downloaded - so if there is a bad tag, that is 
what it presents.  I entered several hundred unrenderable " name" 
tags with a space at the front before Etienne kindly pointed out what 
was happening.

Mike
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