<div dir="ltr">Why not put the date on the right side of the equal sign before the tag?<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-03 15:47 GMT-05:00 Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 4/3/17 4:45 PM, PauLL170 . wrote:<br>
> Hi JDruhanC,<br>
><br>
> see: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Date_namespace" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Proposed_features/Date_<wbr>namespace</a>.<br>
><br>
> For example:<br>
> highway=track<br>
> highway:1900--1950-07=path<br>
> highway:1950-07--1985=track<br>
> start_date=1900<br>
> end_date=1985<br>
><br>
> It gets complicated (according to rendering a certain date) when the<br>
> dates of "path" and "track" overlap due to unknowingness etc. - how do<br>
> we render that? But in general I think this is a legit method.<br>
</div></div>i've never liked strategies like this that pollute key space (the left side<br>
of the = signs). it can make search strategies really, really expensive.<br>
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richard<br>
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