On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Lauri Hahne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/04/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right, I was thinking too far ahead. I won't complain if they > > enter "6;8" and they shouldn't complain when it's treated as if they > > had entered "6". I was thinking that we should point out that using > > semicolons is nice, but doesn't actually work in many cases. > > > > > > > That wouldn't be too hard, since the meaning is clear. The problem > > mostly with tags with multiple values is that the meaning sometimes > > becomes ambiguous. > > But unfortunately there are cases when it's necessary to have multiple > values. The most common of these is if two refs share a road. A road > near me actually officially has two refs and two int_refs. Google > renders them properly at > > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=61.428096,23.785744&spn=0.084233,0.32135&z=12 > so we can't be any worse...
The point is you can model these things quite well with relations. Obviously if you don't want to worry about that right now then continue to use semi-colons -- it's better than nothing. Currently the main renderers support neither method. Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
