Am 15.09.2014 19:08, schrieb Norbert Wenzel:> On 09/15/2014 06:45 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: >> The problem with semicolon-separated values is that you can never be >> sure wether you're looking at multiple values, or one value that >> happens to contain a semicolon. That's part of the reason why other >> tags sometimes use a different separator (a coma, a pipe...). It's >> messy.
Actually, I met a lot of special characters in name but no semi-colon, so far. > As I've mainly thought about name tags (as you may have guessed from my > examples) I still think it's safe to assume there is no name containing > a semicolon (except Little Bobby Tables), but nevertheless you have a > very valid point here. Of course we could define some escape character > like the famous backslash but ... I don't even want to write that stupid > idea down. Do not think that is stupid but one solution for a rare situation. If it is properly described on the wiki, there should be no problem. >> Supporting multiple values natively in the osm data model would >> provide a clean and efficient solution, but updating all the tools to >> support it would be a huge undertaking. > > That would be the best solution and should at least be considered for a > next API version, whenever that seems necessary. The API already supports it but other software might not. > While I was reading > your mail I just remembered I tried to put multiple values under the > same key when I started with OSM and I was surprised the editors > wouldn't let me do this. So this might also be the most intuitive way to > add multiple values. Some years of OSM made me forget about that. ;-) Once more, depending on the software (editor) cu colliar
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