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

[Matt Amos]

2009/4/5 Pierre-André Jacquod <pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch>:
> among theses 431 different values, there are 25 values with ; in them,
> all value (like fuel;fast_food or fuel;toilets ) being composed of
> values already used normally alone as amenity.
>
> This is at least 6% of key/value paar showing that the mapper thing the
> value belong to the same node... Actually this is more, since within the
> 431 entries, I saw quite a lot of entries due to misspelling. Without
> knowing all artificial double node (like I did) in order to map as it is
> "taught"..

this is very interesting. however, counting the number of objects
rather than the number of distinct keys you find there are 35 objects
with ";" in the amenity value and 50,504 without. thats 0.07%, far
more rare :-)

i look forward to seeing your tag comparison dictionary, though!

cheers,

matt