On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 18:39, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> amenity=recycling;waste_basket) [...]
>
> Is this semicolon separation standardized? I've seen it on a few tags,
> but don't recall seeing it explicitly mentioned anywhere.
When we still had the 0.5 API you could add multiple equivalent keys
with distinct values, e.g.:
amenity=recycling
amenity=waste_basket
Then when 0.6 came around that was taken away, so we're now left with:
amenity=recycling;waste_basket
or:
amenity:recycling=yes
amenity:waste_basket=yes
Or numerous other alternatives.
Using ";" to separate them seems to be the recommended thing to do
these days. However as far as I know none of the big consumers of our
data (mapnik/osmarender/mkgmap/...) support it since they all look for
exactly matching key-value pairs.
As a consequence I've taken to creating duplicate nodes (exactly the
same lat/lon) with different tags when I need to map something like
this. It's easy to merge later and is supported now by everyone.
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