On Monday 08 September 2014, Andrew Buck wrote: > > My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands > the ; separator that doing it as multiple tags is the preferred > system.
That does not seem quite comprehensible to me. Note there have been placename imports using the semicolon variant extensively, like from NGA GNS, see: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=source&value=NGA%20GNS#combinations many of the alt_name/alt_name:en there are semicolon separated lists. Nominatim does not seem to have a problem with those. From the viewpoint of a data interpreter the semicolon lists are usually much easier to process than an unlimited number of separate name tags. Likewise for editing. Given that neither alt_name_x nor alt_name:x are documented in the wiki, both variants are hardly used anywhere except western Africa and the semicolon list variant is actually used frequently elsewhere i would strongly suggest if you want to do a mechanical edit you change those to a semicolon list. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
