Hi Andrew, By my count, we have 25,000 instances of ";" in name, 5,600 instances of ";" in alt_name, versus 2500 instances of alt_name_1, and 1000 instances of alt_name_2. A 30:1 difference in usage. Looks to me like the community has in fact decided the ; is preferred over alt_name_1. I suggest you convert to the bad alt_name:1 tags into alt_name with ";" .
Tagging is on topic when discussing imports and mechanical edits. Generally, consultations periods for mechanical edits should take at least week or two. Jason On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/08/2014 05:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My >>> intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d >>> >> >> +1 >> >> I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a >> potentially open-ended set of keys such as "alt_name_x", and >> already has precedent. While it is true that semicolon as a >> multi-value separator is not written as a "law" of OSM tagging, it >> is quite frequent enough to be a de facto tagging guideline. >> > > Both systems are in use and were in use before we started working on > this GNS stuff. The tiger tags are one example, but there were > alt_name_N tags before we started as well. If you want to have a > discussion about changing all of these worldwide, that is fine, but > this thread is about fixing the alt_name:2 ones. > > Please either weigh in on that, or keep silent. I do not have time to > have a general discussion about broader topics of how multi-valued > keys should be handled. There have been dozens of threads that > discussed that and no one has ever come up with a good solution, so I > am not going to have this thread get dragged into the same discussion > that has been had many times before. > > There has been one person who has said it makes sense to change them, > and all of the other posts have been about discussion of other topics. > So unless someone has some concrete reason _not_ to convert the few > mistaken ones, I will go ahead and do that. We can have these other > discussions some other time when people are not waiting on the results. > > - -AndrewBuck > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUDjNFAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbqawP/04K518SqEtxPAPPV7HmPmNU > p71Qhz3uZXC8DMEOPVjar+KhCh5CKVy/s3JugGTBknQWTAH+pdTYsGeMRMT/2UuC > WIglGrseB97WBgDoFyKA4O3QtB1YK3fUWX/lKvtEdlPVgGc6pjVwdkWpHhk+v0ci > k7kwKV8u6MJ2ydezRwDu1qX8usr+T8HUIyTYEGIxwDrwGh56wDLThs05Jd6AalXN > JfaHAQ8UohEJDTMoMCuMCw+hwPpmpPK15jpUKx6xcS2wHoAv5R1q+vvs52Wp6Lm4 > +DYad0B5OcT5SKxZEfRsQid5sQoeEuizryXrW1ScfjaWLA3ufYazqLzzpaV5s97+ > ZU+4m79HQ97/GeAEOQzMbF6ZlhYx2hnbcBbDdQZhjQaP+7xdjXXZxWjBdVfseZVi > PAiwuvoU+yS2FxV9m4i88deOmwwYxZnywUMiJb0aG2r5K9c8fQnENZ9eoaVnp+cR > wygzqgPs9WhXlYvB+VmptPmxi5sKczyCPQQ58eesqSyH1M96u+roISBKtp3NJjHx > /1hpnX/ZPIF3jWSVobVhLOAbsWEO7sKugvHdTAfPquby7AWIzYtUJ7baaOBUAkrV > 9cZRn+kzS2aD/GNlpTrPRrfFjwIGkqggGkBNa2ko+6O0tZWWisUosHaLKMVoXLEg > FuZ4K5i8hhDYPdRsTj2X > =Hj/v > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
