[OSM-dev] JOSM: Several tags with same key

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Thu Apr 2 22:13:34 BST 2009


2009/4/2 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Hallo,
>
> Andreas Kalsch wrote:
>> I'd like to add several tags with the same key. In the most cases this
>> no good practice, but with urls it makes sense, e.g. to add several
>> images to one feature.
>
> This was never supported by JOSM, and while it is currently still
> possible to have several tags with the same key in the database, this
> will not be allowed any longer as soon as we have switched to API 0.6.
>

And while currently possible in the database, it doesn't work in the
current API, so you can't actually enter them  :-)
In a few weeks time it just becomes official, and any existing ones
will be removed.

Dave




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