Matt Amos wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Stefan de Konink <ste...@konink.de> wrote: >> Dave Stubbs wrote: >>> And while currently possible in the database, it doesn't work in the >>> current API, so you can't actually enter them :-) >> Just download an object, duplicate the tag and reupload. Sounds pretty >> possible to me :) > > ah, if only it were that simple :-) > > the API uses a hash and disallows repeated tags on ways and relations. > but it uses a list for nodes, so you can easily get duplicate tags by > the method you describe.
Interesting; I am not convinced but I'll look into it. >>> In a few weeks time it just becomes official, and any existing ones >>> will be removed. >> Hopefully first backupped/renamed for the useful tags. > > duplicate keys are made unique by adding a postfix number. an extra > tag is also added, so that the modification is documented and can be > searched for. Great you don't throw away wikipedia style. Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev