On Thursday 09 October 2008 19:02:44 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Points noted Hugh but in reality it's probably easy enough to find > alternative solutions to these tagging questions.
+1 > Since duplicate keys in > the current data have essentially been legacy data or input errors of some > sort I suspect the number that exist right now is quite low. What will you do with them? I think you must be talking about deleting tags that users have put in (intentionally in at least some cases). I don't think any of mine successfuly made it into the database, but I would be pretty annoyed… > I > think if folks made a compelling reason to keep it and had the patches for > the editors to enable widespread use then it would need to be looked at and > debated a bit more, after all it's the needs of the contributors of data > that should be driving the format of the database, not the other way > around. > So this is getting sensible. Bart seems to think it's too late. I'm just not across all of the design activity of the last few months. I do understand that you might have gone too far down the road. I'd be curious to see if anyone else sees a need. I find delimited strings inherently unsatisfactory to work with, so I also wonder if there are any other workarounds that we could at least recommend? (And I'm turning in now, so I'll go quiet for a bit.) Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev