On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:25:57AM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote: > What is the motivation to go to the one value per key thing again.
Practically everything we have been doing with OSM tags until now has assumed that keys are unique. Nearly all the software I have seen (like editors, renderers, etc.) treat keys as if they are unique. Yes, some things could maybe be cooler if we allow multiple keys, but the reality is that basically every mapper out there and most of the software assumes they are unique. By making them really unique we just enforce this now and turn flaky software into solid software without much work. :-) For years now we had the option of using multiple tags with the same key, but didn't. From a practical standpoint I don't see how this would change. Why would suddenly everybody change over the software to cope with multiple tags with the same keys. So if thats not going to happen anyway, why not acknowledge that by making keys actually unique? Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
