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<p>Now THAT I didn't see coming!</p>
<p>Is this an alternative to add into the mix? If it was working at an API level, I am curious what considerations led to the decision to actively remove it in API0.6.</p>
<p>--colin</p>
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<p>On 2016-01-27 19:45, Richard Fairhurst wrote:</p>
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<br /> When OSM was first designed on a clean whiteboard[1], multiple values were<br /> in fact possible. An object could have<br /><br /> name=Bridge Street<br /> name=Banbury Road<br /><br /> and the API was happy - though, in practice, no (/very little) software<br /> supported it.<br /><br /> This ability was only removed in API 0.6:<br /><br /> <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033437.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033437.html</a><br /><br /> Richard<br /><br /> [1] beer mat<br /><br /><br /><br /> --<br /> View this message in context: <a href="http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Feature-Proposal-Voting-Remove-name-1-and-alt-name-1-from-wiki-tp5865654p5866023.html">http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Feature-Proposal-Voting-Remove-name-1-and-alt-name-1-from-wiki-tp5865654p5866023.html</a><br /> Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Tagging mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></div>
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